Satire is meant to have teeth; satire is meant to be dangerous. But it also happens to be fun because subversion and telling the right kind of people to go to hell is supposed to feel good.

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

I never really saw myself as an activist but at some point the activist is the only moral position to take.

No, actors go out with actresses as a form of self-flagellation.

I'm not making any plans. I'm just going to let the universe surprise me.

I was never a joiner. I tried - I had people I admired and liked and wanted to hang with, but I ended up starting a theatre company and that took me back to Chicago... I guess I wasn't a scenester in the end. Something must have worked out right, as I'm still here - but I'm only a binge socialite.

The elderly have so much to offer. They're our link with history.