Republicans are living in a hermetically sealed Republican universe, just as Democrats are. And so they're responding to their own universe, even if it leads to electoral downfall.

You have to have a plan, or else you're just creating a recipe for chaos.

I wasn't born with a tie or with Mark Shields stapled to my left hip. I have another life.

We're no longer living in Tammany Hall America.

The people who really have character make deep, unshakable connections to something outside themselves.

Friendship allows you to see your own life but with a second sympathetic self.

To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.