The hope for a messiah puts too much on that one person. And you think that absolves you of personal responsibility and you don't have to act because that person will do it for you.

I'm at the atheist end of the agnostic spectrum.

I wish I could remember where I put things. I spend half my life looking for my keys. With the other half I look for my glasses.

The decimation of Lebanon was showing up in Chicago as a series of restaurants and little shops, just as the destruction of Vietnam had been visible here a decade earlier. If you never read the news but ate out a lot you should be able to tell who was getting beaten up around the world.

I'm very honoured that there is a loyal following and I hope it continues

Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel

I love to sing. I'm a soprano.