This sounds really corny, but I am a slave to my work, a workaholic, and glad of it. I like what I do; this is my place, my little universe, one of them.

I prefer to work out alone. It enables me to concentrate on the lessons that the Iron has for me.

I do a lot of stuff for free anyway. Like a lot of people who you see who don't need money. Mick Jagger - he needs money? He just likes to go sing Satisfaction every night. If I wrote that song I probably would do it too.

Could it be that violence is as much a part of the American identity as the Constitution, and a vital component to its economic stability?

We are occupants. No one has any lasting purchase on life or on the planet.

The prison-industrial complex and the military-industrial complex are here with us and are multi-billion dollar enterprises. We can make more money off the kid in Compton if he's a criminal instead of a scholar. It's business.

It's hard to judge literary merit.