Growing up in eastern Kentucky like I did, I'm used to having a few guns around to protect me.

You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess.

I'm not a big fan of Women's Liberation, but maybe it will help women stand up for the respect they're due.

Being on stage is the best part of my career. I just say whatever comes into my head. It's the only time I feel grown-up and in control of things.

This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.

We, as citizens, are the true owners of government.

Jesus is the politics of the new age; He is about the establishment of a kingdom; He is the one who has created a new time that gives us the time not only to care for the poor but to be poor. Jesus is the one who makes it possible to be nonviolent in a violent world.

People in so many countries look up to the United States as a model of democracy, but I doubt if that can continue. It leaves me with a great sense of loss.