It's better to be black than gay because when you're black you don't have to tell your mother.

We, The People is more than a statement of purpose. It is an acknowledgement of an obligation to each other.

As a writer, I have to admit, there is something darkly compelling about Alzheimer's because it attacks the two things most central to a writer's craft - language and memory, which together make up an individual's identity. Alzheimer's makes a new character out of a familiar person.

The man is the Piltdown Man of modern politics.

There is a lot in American politics (and in American life) that is angry, greedy, reckless and violent.

You know, what genuinely makes me uneasy with the way things are going are not - is not really that Trump is going to do everything he said he was going to do, it`s that he has no idea of his job as president. Plus, the people who have been up close and realized that he has no idea how to do this job are leaking like sieves.

If you ever become a mother, can I have one of the puppies?