[Librarians] are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man. I wouldn't mess with them.

I had a newspaper in Flint, Michigan called the 'Flint Voice,' and so it was a, you know, underground, alternative newspaper that I edited and put out for about ten years.

I have never owned a share of stock in my life, and the only time I've double dipped into anything is at the snack tray.

I don't want to do anything that violates my own personal code of ethics and morals.

As the country continues to dissect the recent natural disaster, we might want to start considering what about the disaster wasn't actually 'natural' at all. ... Human activity, the burning of fossil fuels, is causing global warming. Global warming is causing the oceans to warm. Warm oceans are steroids for storms.

I don't want people leaving the theater depressed after my movies. I want them angry.

It is the responsibility of every human to know their actions and the consequences of their actions and to ask questions and to question things when they are wrong.