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

Those cultural wars, Sexual Revolution issues are fading from the scene, and the coming generation has basically settled them.

Creativity is not a solitary process. It happens within networks... when talented people get together, when idea systems and mentalities merge.

There is the English language and then there's the Trump language.

[Donald Trump] will be the one on offense. He will be the one serving volleys, and it may be some weird stuff about the Russians, but he will be controlling things a little more than he probably did over the last two weeks.

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.

Donald Trump is so egregious in the way he talks about women, the way he allegedly treated women.