Like most kids, I grew up singing 'This Land Is Your Land' in grammar school, but with the most radical verses neatly removed. This was before I knew it was a Woody Guthrie song.

If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure.

Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.

I'm supposed to make people cry, but not by manipulating.

Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't fly if it isn't musical.

To me, religion is an agreement between a group of people about what God is. Spirituality is a one-on-one relationship.

My politics were really radical when I was younger, and then I moderated like everyone else does when they start having kids.