My parents were married for sixty-five years, and I was married for about ten minutes, my first year at Yale Drama School. Something, somehow, didn't get passed on to my generation.

If you're going to pick a book and you want to base a system of government around it, why not 'Harry Potter?'

You realize that for all the shenanigans that go on in the big circus of politics, everybody wakes up and goes to work.

When they played, it wasn't music. It was the sound of chaos. I knew it was the sound of chaos because you could hear pigs being slaughtered. Women were weeping and men were gnashing their teeth, and there were sounds so horrible that I cannot repeat them to you, or you would flee from this room in horror!

My father worked at the Naval Ordnance Lab, and they had a nine-hole course on the property. You paid a quarter.

I had to watch the Republican stuff which makes me feel even older than I am. By the time I get through the Democrats, I may be dead. I don't know how much older I can get.

My problem has always been with authority, and I'm sure if anybody understands that, it's people in uniform.