There are more obese people in the world than starving people. As China and India start to develop our eating habits - and not by accident but because agribusiness is going over there and imposing our habits on them - if the population doesn't increase at all, we'll have to raise twice as many animals as we do.

It would be refreshing to have a politician try to defend guns without any reference to the Second Amendment, but on the merits of guns.

I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.

All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.

I need an office, so I can have a place where I don't write.

People around the world were moving from one place to another. No one was staying.

Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it's also a parent's worst nightmare: That they won't need you. It's like the real tragedy of parenting.