A lot of the things that we think of as being racial differences are really class differences in America.

I've always been really curious about things and slightly confused by the world, and I think someone who feels that way is in a good position to be the one asking questions.

I am literally smaller than life. I am an unextraordinary-looking person. I've seen people trying to hide their disappointment when they meet me, and I have to watch them get over it.

Most people I know that have work that is very meaningful to them pay the price of having to work all the time.

I think the interview form works best on the radio. There are a lot of personality traits conveyed in a person's voice, the rhythm of their speech or how confident they sound.

Often real life is boring and problematic. I love the edited version of it.

I think in particularly with young kids who don't have a lot of positive influences, pop culture almost becomes a larger part of that self-discovery and how you define yourself.

I love songs. Songs are my favorite things.

Many artists use their own lives as a kind of case study to examine what it's like to be human.

That era in the late '80s through the '90s was really when the music was so new, fresh, energetic, but still creative. It hadn't quite gotten corporatized yet.

When we spoke, Gene Wilder had just written a memoir called "Kiss Me Like A Stranger." The title was suggested by his late wife Gilda Radner three weeks before she died in 1989.

Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng but in ourselves are triumph and defeat.

If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.

If I had a kid, and I had a choice between teaching somebody how to avoid trouble, or teaching them how to get out of it, I'd teach them how to get out of it.

I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.

Infinite money is available to a mind that is ready, willing, able, qualified and gives itself permission to earn and accept it.

Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken.

The genius of Coleridge is like a sunken treasure ship, and Coleridge a diver too timid and lazy to bring its riches to the surface.

Considering yourself a feminist doesn't make you one. Being an empathic human who can see both sides of a coin is feminism's true essence.

I have always believed the thesis that one's politics and the character of one's intellectual work are inseparable.