L.A. - talk about a cruel city: Patients are forcibly removed from hospitals.

As far as what I do love, I love birds; I love lavender.

Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy.

A lot of people on Capitol Hill don't want to talk to me.

I'm interested to see what happens with Fox News and phone hacking. I really can't believe it just happens in Great Britain. Because really, who cares about just hacking phones over there?

There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.

I'm a millionaire, I'm a multi-millionaire, I'm filthy rich. You know why I'm a multi-millionaire? 'Cause multi-millions like what I do.

The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow - and they will win.

This book, 'Stupid White Men,' has sold now over four million copies worldwide. Probably about half of that may be in the U.S. and Canada, and the rest, overseas.

Any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up.

Back in the '80s and '90s, when GM was consistently posting giant profits, they were simultaneously firing tens of thousands of workers in my hometown of Flint and across Michigan.

If you travel in time and space, most of the people you know and love will eventually be gone. But you'll also be able to go and find them again.

I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity.

There is a root arrogance in any writer; a hugely arrogant assumption that anyone is going to listen to them.

You don't have to do anything. Why worry? It's all god's plan anyway. Just love everyone and believe.

A remarkable thing about the Silicon Valley culture is that its status structure is so based on technical accomplishment and prowess.

This New York thing is being blown out of proportion. Who gives a **** about New York when elephants are being killed?

I love Salt Lake City. It's beautiful with all the great outdoors around you.

The first time I did stand-up was the summer I was 17.

I'm the youngest of seven kids.

The way everyone in London is right up against each other makes it very real to you growing up, the fact that people have different lives to you. And that causes problems; of course it does.