I really think [the Bush Administration]'s foreign policy agenda is to spread irony through the world.

I can only fight back in a way that I feel like I'm talented.

Jazz musicians are the coolest people on the planet. Can I have some cool?

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.

They may want to insist that corporations are people but corporations are certainly not Americans.

Michael Brown, the director of FEMA, was nominated by President Bush in 2003 and plans to start the job any day now. ... Prior to heading FEMA, Brown spent the 90's as a commissioner -- this is true -- of the International Arabian Horse Association. I guess he stands out because most Bush appointees are beholden to Arabian people.

Megachurches. I can't be the only one frightened when our houses of worship sound like they could take on Godzilla.