It's one day at a time, that's all there is to it, and so I don't have to worry about it. All I do is, okay, I do not have to drink. And if I feel like it, I postpone it for ten minutes, and that way I find something else to do in the meantime.

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.

Once I know I'm an alcoholic then it is my obligation, duty to see what I can do about healing myself.

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

Conservatism is not a political ideology, it is a severe form of brain damage for which there's hardly any cure.

To be Irish today is the abandonment of shame and the younger people are moving it out and they're moving the fear away. They're not afraid, they're adventurous.

That's one part of oppression is to make sure you are a shameful, shamed human being. That takes care of the past.