Breath mints and Chapstick are key if you want to have a good kiss.

The best part about a first kiss is right before the first kiss.

Just open, honest communication is the best thing in the world.

I like to do things in which I'm playing someone else entirely.

I listen to a lot of old stuff like Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, and The Temptations.

I love memoirs and autobiographies in general.

The best kisses have something behind it - maybe something has been smoldering for a while, and it's about to happen.

You determine the destiny of the nation, this is your time

When the going gets tough, the tough gets going.

Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

I kind of call myself an atheist, I suppose - although quite a spiritual atheist, I hope.

You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway.

I'm more like an oven than a microwave.

There are times when you devote yourself to a higher cause than personal safety.

We were always going to dump him when we found a decent drummer.

Carl Icahn told me to stay away from airlines. In good times, the unions take away the profits, and in bad times, the cost of oil kills you.

I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.