As an adolescent, Vonnegut made my life bearable.

It's very hard to feel the difficulties that the military goes through. It's very hard to feel the difficulties of military families, unless you're in that environment. And sometimes you have to force yourself to try and put yourself in other people's sort of shoes and environment to get the sense of that.

The President says, "We are in the fight for a way of life. This is the greatest battle of our generation, and of the generations to come."

The conversation that the Senate and the House are having with the President [Barack Obama] was very similar to the conversation that [John] McCain and I were having, which was two people talking over each other and nobody really addressing the underlying issues of what kind of country do we want to be.

I'm a little bit too obsessed with the news. I find the news easier to follow than narrative entertainment programs.

Apparently the only time the press gets it right is when the White House illegally leaks it to them.

[If President Bush is right about democracy in Iraq] I may, and I don't know if I can physically do this, implode.