Humans will take a rain forest and lose it and cover it with concrete. They will take the woods and turn it into a parking garage and I am not saying that's bad. I am just saying that's what we do. We occupy the planet with a vengeance. We seek to dominate it.

Look, it's a monster. He's walking alone. Look, he's pulling something out of his pocket. He threw it on the ground. Let's go see what it is. It's a black box. You open it... ok... Look, it's sorrow, misery and pain. It's loneliness and longing. Boy, he'll be sorry he lost these.

Sarah Palin embarrasses herself almost immediately upon opening her mouth to speak or upon moving her fingers to send messages to her dull flock.

You can pass all the gun legislation you want. None of it will make me feel any more or less safe than I do right at this moment.

Pride is a thing that I have tried to abandon completely. Try as I might, pride still creeps into many of the things I do.

The opportunity to write for the 'L.A. Weekly' has been one of the better breaks that has come my way in a long time.

Friends come and go but 200lbs is always 200lbs.