I believe in the dull lie - make your story boring enough and no one will question it.

Live disasters are wonderful attractions when you're safe on the other side of them.

This was a very progressive group of clergy who foresaw the race riots that were going to take place when Dr. King started helping the local civil rights community push for open housing. They were sort of hoping against hope that we could educate kids in a way that could counter some of the racist messages they were imbibing at home. I don't know whether we did any good, but it changed my life in every single way.

While we were walking around, we came to the Catholic church, and we saw that some people had set fire to carpets and banked them around the rectory, which was made out of wood. They knew every fire truck on the South Side was going to be in the park, that the rectory would just burn to the ground. Our one little act was putting out that fire.

Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of telling stories.

If I were elected President, the first thing I would do would be to set up a Department of Restoring the Bill of Rights. I would have 10,000 people working there.

Hard to remember who is more dangerous: the people who are attacking our liberties overseas, or those who are suppressing them at home.