Don't buy into the corporate mythology that's been rammed down our throats for all these years.

Any time you stop looking at evil as a black and white thing, it's helpful. So the fact that there won't be any obligatory Islamic terrorist stereotypes in movies any more, that'd be helpful.

Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?

The reason bin Laden staggered the planes going into the towers was so every camera would be focused on the second tower when the plane hit. It was not only the murder, but the perpetual image of the horror that permeated into people's consciousness.

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

Sometimes you meet people and you feel like you've known them for a long time.

A lot of powerful people in Washington may think it's a crazy-leftist-fringe position to think the intellectual authors of a torture regime should be investigated and prosecuted.