I don't think I'm a particularly good writer, and I'm not terribly insightful.

If Nirvana had remained a small, underground punk rock band, Kurt Cobain would still be alive. And he'd probably be living in Seattle, getting kind of fat and balding, be relatively happy and producing records for other people.

There might be a lot of difference between Republicans and Democrats on key social issues like women's rights and health care. But when it comes to taking corporate cash, they're pretty much the same beast.

I was on food stamps until I was 18 and became an adult.

It's almost like a sign of mental illness to base your self-worth on the opinions of complete strangers, you know?

We hope that as a species we're capable of dealing with environmental catastrophe before it actually does collectively kill most of us.

If I had to label myself now, I'd call myself a Taoist-Christian-agnostic quantum mechanic.