Wish I'd written Tikkun Olam – a Weavers or Peter Paul & Mary hit!

When people used to call me a political writer, it was kind of confusing because I was always much more interested in the social end of things which hinges on the political, but it isn’t really part of it.

I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple of larger things.

Of course, I have a different vested interest in the gay community, because I am gay, and I would certainly enjoy the tax advantages that straight people have, and the inheritance advantages, and things like Social Security, but I've always been a civil rights advocate across the board. That's how I was raised.

Wish I'd written Tikkun Olam – a Weavers or Peter Paul & Mary hit!

There will always be those people who are just backward and ignorant. There will always be those people. They need somebody to feel superior to.

I bought all my friends guitars and I had a good time with my money. But then one day the IRS came knocking.