The purpose of art actually is, in many cases, to make you feel quite uncomfortable. Or at least to go to that place that's already of discomfort inside of you and tap into that.

This life is a gift, and to reject that gift or abuse that gift is not human and not worthy of us.

They are possibly the dumbest people on the planet... We Americans suffer from an enforced ignorance. We don't know about anything that's happening outside our country. Our stupidity is embarrassing.

Army Specialist Bradley Manning deserves a medal, not prison.

In some states, you can vote a straight party ticket, but you can't vote for individual candidates.

I think that there's something in the American psyche, it's almost this kind of right or privilege, this sense of entitlement, to resolve our conflicts with violence. There's an arrogance to that concept if you think about it. To actually have to sit down and talk, to listen, to compromise, that's hard work.

A lot of people on Capitol Hill don't want to talk to me.