You know that sadness and rage you feel about your money? That's the way some of us feel about people.

Catholic and Jew - it's very closely related, a lot of holidays, a lot of guilt, a lot of the same things going on.

The Oscar nominations are out, and they're so white a grand jury has decided not to indict them.

When I was a kid, there was kind of a given that there were some really bad, racist police out there. That's just what America was like when I was a kid.

I try to impart this when people say they want to be a writer and they want to go into show biz. I say, "Well, have you taken any courses? You can't just have a passion for it; you have to prepare yourself for a life of it."

There always seemed to be a place for God and, to me, it seemed like God was a place in the unknown side of the ledger.

I've always felt like I had a guardian angel in some of those ways.