Self-consciousness kills communication.

It's just in Washington we're talking about equal rights for gay people, civil liberty to smoke marijuana, taking care of the environment, and it's all just decency and common sense and patriotism. And in other parts of the country that would be, like, inconceivable.

There's a huge difference between the more progressive and more regressive parts of America. That's just the way it is.

I believe, very strongly, that it is the responsible, adult, recreational, no apologies necessary, 'it just makes my music more fun,' recreational use of marijuana is a civil liberty.

If you don't like a place, maybe you don't know enough about it... Give a culture the benefit of your open mind.

Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something is not to your liking, change your liking.

Travel is intensified living … and one of the last great sources of legal adventure.