I wonder what I can do about war. Is it the destiny of human kind to eventually wipe ourselves out with these weapons of mass destruction? Are we stupid to think that we can control them?

I failed everything in school. I left when I was 13 because I had no comprehension of what the hell they were talking about up there at the blackboard. I must have that ADD thing. But, listening to people I thought, that's wonderful to be able to tell a story.

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

The Supreme Court gives corporations the same rights as a human being. It's absurd. You can't do that.

I think people are so disillusioned with the parties. It's one party with two different names, and they are so spineless.

I absolutely love the public transportation system in New York. No matter what, no matter how people complain, it is the best in the world.

Limericks don't come from Limerick. But it comes from that between the verses when they used to have those competitions that they would put in the refrain, "follow me up, follow me up, follow me up to Limerick Town."