the most sacred business of judges is not to ratify the will of the majority but to protect the minority from its tyranny.

I think we now know the limits also of intelligence and rhetoric.

I do think there's some aspect of being a novelist that is a little crazy making.

Reporters are not paid to operate in retrospect. Because when news begins to solidify into current events and finally harden intohistory, it is the stories we didn't write, the questions we didn't ask that prove far, far more damaging than the ones we did.

I do tend to be almost kind of Pollyanna-ish person.

Testosterone does not have to be toxic.

Loss as muse. Loss as character. Loss as life.