I campaigned for [Dennis] Kucinich in 2008. I continue to be in touch with him and I really admire him. I think he's very brave and honest - unusually so for a U.S. politician.

You can't really divorce yourself and your life from the world you live in.

Saying you are a patriot does not make you one; wearing a flag pin does not in itself mean anything at all.

Joseph Campbell said the privilege of a lifetime is being yourself. That's his feeling. And I guess it's mine too.

Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.

I don't have a BlackBerry or whatever you call it. And there is something to be said for being isolated and out of phone range, because you can fall into a habit to such a degree that you don't even realise that you've lost something: silence.

The first decade of your life is really important; it's formative.