The only thing worse than the Pastor Terry Jones scheduled Koran burning is the fact that he canceled the proposed event.

I would like to get out to the region in the Caspian sea. I would like to go there. I would like to get to Darfur. I would like to get to Khartoum in Northern Sudan. I would like to get to Zimbabwe. I would like to go back to North Korea, if I could. I would like to go to Yemen. I would like to get to Kashmir. Most of those destinations I will get to.

One person's roar is another's whine, just as one person's music is another's unendurable noise.

In my bright, utopian future world, they will hand out college educations like cups of water at the end of the L.A. Marathon.

I live my life through the prism of capitalism and physiological limits and eventualities. In all of that, there is no spirituality required. No God and karma is needed for the numbers. I live my life by the numbers. Not only am I an American, I am an Americanist.

America is a rough room and you don't know what might come your way, so you have to be prepared for almost anything.

Youth is fleeting and life is short, you might as well strike hard. Anything else is just average.