I went out in my yard and saw a snake, so I got really scared, and I came back inside to get a shovel, and beat the hell out of that snake. Then I didn't have cable for a week.

Christmas always sucked when I was a kid because I believed in Santa Claus. Unfortunately, so did my parents. So I never got anything.

You couldn't be a racist and live in L.A.; you'd be exhausted.

How could we change the way we think? Through renewed knowledge.

... the novel, arguably the author's best, had a disquieting power, like a sleeping crocodile.

I think one of the most fascinating things you can do after you learn about your own people is to study something about the history and culture of other people.

The White House has now put together a website for kids. It's a website to teach kids how to manage a budget responsibly. The website is called ' Irony.gov. '

I was 7 years old when the '80s began and 17 years old when they ended, so it was an incredibly formative decade for me.

Your hands weren't meant to take peoples lives. They were meant to save them.

I've been in office and I've been out of office. And if I were to choose, I'd rather be in office.

We're excited to be appearing in Tel Aviv in the framework of the Pic.nic festival. This is an important tour for us and we're glad that Israel is part of it

How something important happens is the business of historians and newspapers, the effect it has is the business of philosophers and writers and especially poets.

I live with the people I've always lived with. I'm quite content.