America is a country born from semi-mythologized blood, glory and acts of selfless patriotic sacrifice.

I slept in Uday Hussein's bed - that was just so strange. Went to Saddam's palace, was in a mortar attack - crazy stuff. And like three days later you're back in traffic on Sunset Boulevard. It's all kind of behind you, which is kind of perfect for a guy like me because I can take that and turn it into quite the tale.

With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad.

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.

I guess I am famous in a way. I would rather consider it recognizable - I think that is more logical. I don't feel famous.

Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul.

While I have no empirical evidence to back this up, I bet that the number of homosexual people per thousand has not fluctuated all that much over the centuries. I do not believe the dented wisdom my father used to extol, that homosexuality was a sure sign of a civilization in decline.