"Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't."

"A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it. That includes health information. And mental health information. It's a community space. It's a place of safety, a haven from the world."

"The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street naked...that's the moment you may be starting to get it right."

"So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech."

"I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work."

"We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose from real options."

"Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself."

"The job numbers are positive. We've had more jobs created now than were lost during the recession. We're seeing that the creation, we're seeing those numbers not only grow but shift toward the private sector and shift toward full-time employment and these are all signs that the recovery is taking some hold but we're not out of woods."