Nietzsche said that everyone tells themselves the story of their life. That's true about countries, too. We're constantly telling ourselves the American story.

The story of America is necessarily one of progress because if it's not than it's a stale story where we have not risen above Klansmen.

I love the bullshit morning shows. They're so stupid but I love them.

Blue jeans and Hollywood and rock & roll won the cold war.

British films are all "room with a view and a staircase and a pond."

We're a leader sure, but still a member of the global community. And that's true and important and when America acts like its worst self on the global stage is when we forget that.

Nationality was - and is - far less a divide than age... because "everything is global, man!"

Change your mind, change your future

Give much, demand little.

Capitalism is destroying the planet. The two old tricks that dug it out of past crises--War and Shopping--simply will not work.

My personal favorite [ moment] was when someone asked for one selfie too many and [Andy Cohen] snapped and tried to kill her by hugging her.

Reading is another thing that has made me more human by exposing me to worlds I might never have entered and people I might never meet.

In Missouri, where I come from, we don't talk about what we do - we just do it. If we talk about it, it's seen as bragging.

Better one byrde in hand than ten in the wood.

I have seen so many eruptions in the last 20 years that I don't care if I die tomorrow.

There's backlash about everything I do.

If it was so honorable and glorious to be black, why was it the yellow-skinned people among us had so much prestige?