I don't remember my father reading to me, but I remember him telling me bedtime stories. I got to pick what was in them, and then he'd make them up.

To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us.

Well, the role of money in politics is pretty corrupting right now.

Most of the books that I've written have been focused on, sort of, the individual, and sort of, either a voice, a personal voice, or a kind of transforming event where they step forward to fight for something they value.

People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

I think that the presidency really brings out the best in a lot of people.

There's so much to think about when you're becoming an adult, and there's so many great poems about that apprehension and excitement.