Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion, too.

You know, I'm not comfortable with people whose politics are static in a democracy.

The stupidest thing that a writer can do is write a memoir I think, unless it's right before you die -- maybe.

If I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything.

America's criminal justice system isn't known for rehabilitation. I'm not sure that, as a society, we are even interested in that concept anymore.

Maybe I'm not as big a star as Bruce Springsteen because I'm not as good. I don't know. It doesn't matter. I still have an audience of a certain size. I think it's one of the things I'm luckiest.

I've been on every interstate highway in the lower forty-eight states by now and I never get tired of the view.