I like that you have four minutes to zero in on something and evoke a specific feeling and take people on some sort of journey.

I don't care if you hate me or love me, as long as I make you think.

With every breath, I'm deeper in you.

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

I became an overachiever to get approval from the world.

I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.

I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.

I always acted like a star long before I was one.

Better to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as sheep.

Power is being told you're not loved and not being destroyed by it.

As much good as it does, social media can also encourage stupidity and degradation.

The more choices you have, the more your values matter.

Conscience is a cur that will let you get past it but that you cannot keep from barking.

If you're manic-depressive and you're functioning in this world and doing it all well, I think, wow, you should be proud of being able to say, this is what I'm getting through right now.

Sustainability is growth based on forms and processes of development that do not undermine the integrity of the environment on which they depend

I would like to write my next book about what happened to critical intelligence in America and how it's been undermined by these really shallow ideas about human life and nature.

Writing is tyranny ... but reading is democracy.

I have either a cucumber martini, gin martini, or a vodka martini. That's it. Simple.

I've always been aware that the image you patiently construct for an entire career can be ruined in a minute. It scares you a bit, but that's the way things are.

Personal desire, age, and my health do not allow me to personally have a role in running the country [i.e. Iran] after the fall of the current system [of the Shah].

I'm not cynical when it comes to things that are important. I'm cynical about pop culture and all that horseshit.