The world would be better off with multiple superpowers. When Communist USSR was a superpower, the world was better off.

It’s mentally exhausting, feeling bad about something you can do nothing about.

I'm grateful for any opportunity to act.

Now, granted, there are still as many heartbreaking things going on. There are so many things in the Obama administration to be sick over that certainly didn't change. And also our media, if it's possible, seems to be getting even worse. The alleged news media. And then there are the teabag racists adding insult to injury. But I don't have that same heartbreak anymore, because it's not fresh heartbreak anymore. It's like I'm used to it. I'm sure we all are just used to it.

Nothing translates worse than comedy into the printed word.

I despise in others my own characteristics.

Anybody who French bashes just might as well wear a badge that says 'I am a follower! I don't think for myself and I have no idea what I'm talking about.' That would be a French basher.