Be As Smart As You Can, But

I Really Don't Like Plays Or Movies That Service Propaganda.

The One Hour Live Debate In The West Wing That We Did Was One Of The Most Exciting Times For Me On Stage Or On Camera, Because Anything Could Go Wrong.

I Was A Child, And My Mother Was Psychotic. She Loved Me, But I Didn't Really Feel I Had A Mother. And When You Live With Somebody Who Is Paranoid And Thinks You're Trying To Kill Them All The Time, You Tend To Feel A Little Betrayed.

The Difference Between Listening And Pretending To Listen, I Discovered, Is Enormous. One Is Fluid, The Other Is Rigid. One Is Alive, The Other Is Stuffed. Eventually, I Found A Radical Way Of Thinking About Listening. Real Listening Is A Willingness To Let The Other Person Change You. When I’m Willing To Let Them Change Me, Something Happens Between Us That’s More Interesting Than A Pair Of Dueling Monologues.

I Still Don't Like The Word Agnostic. It's Too Fancy. I'm Simply Not A Believer. But, As Simple As This Notion Is, It Confuses Some People. Someone Wrote A Wikipedia Entry About Me, Identifying Me As An Atheist Because I'd Said In A Book I Wrote That I Wasn't A Believer. I Guess In A World Uncomfortable With Uncertainty, An Unbeliever Must Be An Atheist, And Possibly An Infidel. This Gets Us Back To That Most Pressing Of Human Questions: Why Do People Worry So Much About Other People's Holding Beliefs Other Than Their Own?