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

The self is just not a worthy enough vehicle to worship.

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.

It came home to me indelibly that I was never going to change anything in America by walking around carrying a sign. It was a great revelation. It saved me a lot of anxiety and a lot of wasted energy.

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