When people come in the door and they have something, discovering and exploring the character is a real joy.

Bigots are actually funny to me in the way that people who still wear parachute pants give me a chuckle.

Much as banks don't care where your money's coming from, the Electoral College is all 'don't ask, don't care' when it comes to votes.

Even I haven't downed enough L.A. Kool-Aid to believe that somehow Hollywood movies are an overt instrument of morality.

Gay marriage will be universally accepted in time. But if I may be so bold as to say to gays and lesbians, don't wait for that time to arrive. Just as my father and his generation did not 'wait' for their civil rights, nor should you. The toothpaste ain't going back in the tube. The tide has turned.

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

I've no desire to start a movement, to be the first name on an open petition, or to be the poster child for disgruntled writers.