Quite simply, quite plainly, just by virtue of his being, Barack Obama is America. The first true American to lead our nation.

Barack Obama is the New Generation and the hot light of a dawn that goes way beyond clever talk of morning in America.

I'm sorry, but chick fights are sexy. If you don't think so, you're either an uptight woman or a lying man.

When entertainment works the best, you're creating an apparatus to convey emotions.

When I was young and I look at the things that I wrote - I don't think that was the word they used back then, but they had a hipster sensibility. They were a little irreverent.

With fear of stating the obvious: Freedom belongs to 'We the People,' not 'They the Politicians.'

I don't think it's good when entertainment tries to proselytize and I don't think people ultimately want someone showing up in their living room and just hectoring at them all day long. But if you can create a space where people are caught up in something - whether it's a drama, a comedy, a romantic comedy, or science fiction - that's when people give over their minds and allow their emotions to flow.