The purpose of the media is to make us all spectators, to watch. So that's why we have millions of fat children watching the games, eating and consuming and not playing themselves.

There seems to be less obvious corruption in city government and New York politicians, they aren't Republican or Democrat, they're New Yorkers.

Here am I, a human being and that has a body that is getting old. And I only have one, I can't trade it in.

Democracy to me is letting the other person speak and being dissenting without being disagreeable.

Never make any reference to the other person's family. "You're just like your - " because that is out, completely.

To lose one parent is a tragedy, to lose both is utter carelessness.

Being a kid myself, I loved playing and I loved playing with words, and making up things and riddles and songs and not afraid of being silly in public.