Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time.

Americans are poorly served by their media, you know, for the war machine and propaganda machine and the global empire and they're poorly served by what they are being told is representative government.

I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.

The best revenge is to always survive yourself.

In the worst of times the best among us never lose their moral compass, and that is how they emerge relatively unscathed.

Not that the writers weren't good. I believe in those books and those writers very much. It's just that in the climate it's really hard to keep the lights on and the doors open when you're selling poetry and literature that appeals to a fringe audience.

Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness.