When you are young, there is so much ahead of you, it's like the Saharan desert. You can't even see across it.

Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.

I do think that Americans are poorly served by their media, at times extremely poorly served by their elected officials who are non responsive to majority feelings and cut off to a certain degree from the affairs of the world.

If I hear, 'Be afraid of Tehran,' I'm like, 'I'd better go to Tehran.'

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.

When people make my country look bad, I can't stand it.

I just work, to the exclusion of most other things. I rarely work in a frenzied manner, just kind of - if you take the beater that whips the icing or the eggs into shape - on the upper end of medium speed, that's kind of how I am about seven days a week.