I was amazed and amused. It's good publicity for the book.

Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.

Life has a higher end, than to be amused.

It can't hurt, publicity is publicity, controversy and all that, it's all good.

On the other hand, I'm part of a movement which has a very, very ambitious goal of slowing down ... the American empire and keeping it from continuing to do the many terrible things it does all over the world. We have to reach the American public, and to do that we have to have access to the mass media.

On the one hand, I have nothing but distaste for any kind of religious fundamentalism and the societies spawned by that kind of fundamentalism.