White people scare the crap out of me.

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.

I didn't know that the world could be so mind-blowingly beautiful.

The deeds of darkness will be illuminated by the sun

The regrets in the theatre have always been the shows that you know ought to have worked but for one reason or another haven't.

Meet the sun every morning as if it could cast a ballot.

Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.

Imagine, 24 pages of superhero adventures produced by the same writer and artist every month!! How did they do it? (What? By being professional about it? But that's too much like work!)

I have a house in Stratford and I got a house in Atlanta but I don't really live anywhere--I live on the road. I'm kind of like living in a suitcase, travelling so much.

I think movies are now like going to a museum and seeing the latest exhibit - people just aren't going. It really is a dying art form. It feels frustrating.

I'm never aiming to make a movie like someone else's movie, but in order to describe a movie to someone else who hasn't seen it, you usually have to reference things they have seen.

You've got to stand as you exist. You can change the height of the podium to accommodate your height, but you cannot have a stool. You cannot have footstool or any of that.