What I am feeling in myself, and what is happening to my physical body, to some extent, and what is happening to me mentally, is not a depression, is not a death. It is a transformation. It is a transcendence.

You can't love your mother or father if you don't also have the capacity to grieve their deaths and, perhaps even more so, grieve parts of their lives.

Timothy McVeigh was a coward. Violence is the stupid way out. It'll discredit any real legitmate movement.

When did it become something of shame or ridicule to be a self-made man in America?

I don't know which way to take Donald Trump. And only time will tell. Only time will tell.

Every night I get down on my knees and pray that Dennis Kucinich will burst into flames.

I have not heard people in the Republican Party yet admit that they have a problem. And when they do say that they have a problem I don't know that I believe 'em.