When a president speaks that usually means a lot.

Donald Trump appalls me. I won't be shy about that.

For us going forward, it's to not reverse the dynamism of American society and the diversity. It's to pay attention to the people who are being ruined by it, and so this doesn't happen again.

If you just rely on one model, you tend to amputate reality to make it fit your model.

If you go in a confirmation process, you're going to be asked about the embarrassing or stupid things you said. You should have a view.

We pretend to be a middle class, democratic nation, but in reality we love our blue bloods. ... We love the prep school manners, the aristocratic calm, the Skull and Bones mystery, the dappled lawns stretching before New England summer homes. How else can be explained the Bush vs. Kerry match-up that confronts us this year?

The message of the summoned life is that you don't need to panic if you don't yet know what you want to do with your life. But you probably want to throw yourselves into circumstances where the summons will come.