I wanted to take the power of thought and the word, along with the power of speaking and heart, and see if we could wire what was coming out of us as humans with electric instruments.

It's always good to go home. It's strengthening to see your past and know you have someplace to go where you're part of a people.

I knew I had to stop running. I had to be in a place. Los Angeles became that place.

One Earth, one mother - one does not sell the Earth.

A lot of crime fiction writing is also lazy. Personality is supposed to be shown by the protagonist's taste in music, or we're told that the hero looks like the young Cary Grant. Film is the medium these writers are looking for.

Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.

No one wants to hear my perspective on politics, but I think honestly as you get older, you get more interested in it.

Political elites vote in a more partisan fashion than the mass public; this tendency, too, follows a curve. The more you know, the more likely you are to vote in an ideologically consistent way, not just following your party but following a set of constraints dictated by a political ideology.