I grew up in Evanston and lived in Chicago for a long time, in Old Town and Wrigleyville. I did three films when I was in high school. The first was 'Class,' with Rob Lowe. I had a supporting role in that.

When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.

Justice always has context.

Radical Islam and US exceptionalism are in bed with each other. They're like lovers, methinks.

I think poets tell better history than historians. Historians lie all the time but the poets can get to truth of it.

These people say free markets are the way to go, but wink, wink, the markets aren't really free. They're just a protectionist racket, and we have to pay for it all on every level. It's really quite extraordinary, and immoral, and illegal. These things need to be named, and shamed, and outed, and mocked, and prosecuted.

The British keep employing me, and that makes me like them. It also makes me think they're very intelligent.