The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.

Men are destroyed for being rebellious, and women destroy themselves by failing to be rebellious. Unless you can make that next jump to either getting along with people or resisting people, you are ultimately destroying yourself.

We hear the ambient noise of children singing. We hear lions and tigers roar. Hyenas laugh. Some jungle bird or howler monkey declares its existence, screeching a maniac's gibberish. Our entire world, always doing battle against the silence and obscurity of death.

Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list.

Her voice makes me think of her mouth makes me think of her breath makes me think of her breasts.

The on­ly thing I know is ev­ery­thing you love will die.

If there’s any trick to doing a job you hate . . . Mrs. Clark says it’s to find a job you hate even more.