Some of my earliest political feelings were based on the anti-Japanese bubblegum cards I got. There were also Spanish Civil War bubblegum cards. Awful.

Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.

I like smart, funny, self-deprecating men.

The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.

A lot of people don't want to feel anti-black by being opposed to Obama.

I have an engagement ring, which is my favorite accessory.

There are genuinely sufficient resources in the world to ensure that no one, nowhere, at no time, should go hungry.

As they used to say 'What if they gave a war and nobody came?' How worthwhile if they declared a day of peace and everybody came.

All capitalists should be like Warren Buffett, and he says he should be taxed more.

I also think that there is a strong streak of racism, and whenever we engage in foreign adventures. Our whole history in regime change has been of people of different color.

My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.

See beyond the eyes can see, believe beyond the inspiration!

He was an indecent man, I told myself - prayerfully - and then I prayed for him to become decent.

We do not know when he is coming. He is coming tomorrow.

It's sad when you think about it, but also kind of beautiful.

I think that it's much brighter just to assume that you're an animal in the jungle and you have to survive.

Whatever is immediately perceived is an idea: and can any idea exist out of the mind?

I think of how and why and what happened and the thoughts come easily, but the answers don't.

I've never been called a man of few words.

What I've found is that stage is very much a foundation of acting. It's where it all began and you're working with that repetition.

I didn't know there was so many people in this world that knew of me.