Michigan, with its delicious American name. How lucky one must be to live there.

You are not what you want. You are what wants you back.

In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not terribly great.

Every moment I have ever experienced as a child is as important as every moment I am experiencing now, or will experience ever. I guess what I'm saying is that not everybody should have children.

I wonder what children whose parents have money think about in their spare time.

As every so-called creative spirit soon learns, the rest of the world doesn't particularly give a damn.

She folds the pages of the books she reads when she wants to remember something important. Her favorite books are accordions, testaments to an endless search for meaning.

I want to be loved so badly, it verges on mild insanity.

I am a kind of joke, but the question is: which kind? My job is to keep everyone guessing.

After all, this is America, and you can swap out the parts of yourself that don't work. You can rebuild yourself piece by piece.

Maybe this is who I really am.Not a loner, exactly.But someone who can be alone.

I do dream every night but in the morning I regret.

Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness.

I started off doing plays as a theater actor. But I never thought of it in terms of it leading anywhere. I was just trying to be the best actor that I could be in the context of what I was doing.

At one level you're condemned to the voice you have. But within those confines, you have a certain amount of freedom to range among your possible voices.

A nation's path to greatness lies in its economic prowess and ... militarism, empire, and aggression lead to a dead end.

We have to do commerce differently because the WalMart system of big box chain retail will soon die. This means rebuilding local main street economies (networks of local economic interdependency).

New York City has the most beautiful women.

Efficiency, which is doing things right, is irrelevant until you work on the right things.

I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey.

Don't make a hasty movement. Be like a mountain. Move silently and cautiously.