I think it is incumbent on anyone who can to lift human dignity to the highest possible levels, maintaining one's own and helping to raise that of others.

August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.

The fact is that I am always thinking of something to build. A new book, radio show, plans for a trip somewhere. I am not a very happy person but I feel pretty even when I am working, so I guess that is how I am wired.

When you're kept out of the adult world, it's a blessing in disguise.

I would like go to Palestine and interview people there about what their lives are like; same thing in Iran.

I believe that contentment or any sustained period of joy that doesn't inspire thought that leads to action almost immediately is useless.

I'd love to talk to Janeane Garafalo or Randi Rhodes or Stephanie Miller from Air America. I'm an Air American junkie; I listen to them every day.