If you do something really cognitively demanding, like buying furniture, it turns out buying furniture is one of the most difficult things we do. Go into a furniture store and look at a sofa.

The government is supposed to provide a level playing field where people can compete fairly. It's not supposed to cut deals with one company or another to do so.

A wise soul once declared that the ultimate power of the writer is that he has the choice of whom he wants to be co-opted by.

Freedom without structure is its own slavery.

I would have swapped out Donald Trump's frontal cortex for somebody else's for a little more self-control.

As for multimillionaires [in Donald Trump's Administration], a lot of us hope to be a multimillionaire some day. Again, spotty records, but it seems to be not without the range.

If we got rid of everybody in Washington who sold access for donations, then the town would be empty. But it's unseemly.