For me, returning to Los Angeles annihilates the memories of where I have just been with an astonishing speed.

What I'm saying is America has a job deficit because hundreds of thousands of jobs went elsewhere. Not because [Barack] Obama raised your taxes. He, in fact, lowered them. They are lower.

I take the work seriously, just not myself in it.

People like Jefferson, Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony and M. L. K. are larger than life to me. I find myself staring at photographs of Lincoln almost in disbelief that he was a man who walked the earth and not merely some fiction writer's creation.

It's difficult for me to be around anyone for longer than an hour. Love, death, elation, sorrow, I just don't care all that much about any of it. I am at this point, more of an observer/journalist.

Kids need parents who love and support them unconditionally, full stop.

I think Naomi Klein was very astute with her book 'Shock Doctrine.' We make money on disaster.