Once you accept anything as tacked down, then you begin to build a structure, to accept limits. Then you have to make a choice as to whether or not you're going to accept that structure. If you do, you give up the notion of total freedom.

Any political agenda and organization which doesn't begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It's just not going to succeed.

I got out of college and I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State. I was working as an actor at the Actor's Workshop, being abused as a intern.

I think it's good that people value their bodies and take care of them. I think if you cross the line and begin using your body as an asset or as an extension of your vanity, you've gone too far.

Money is a way of creating scarcity.

Where I didn't have the maturity and the compassion to consider other people's needs, I did a lot of damage.

Interdependence is a fact, it's not an opinion.