As thrilling as it was, speechwriting is ultimately frustrating for someone who wants to be a writer.

Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us, and now we are discovering we work for Fox

People who want to wage cultural wars ought to keep in mind that cultural views often don't move at all for a very long time, but when they move they can move very fast.

A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but also their motives.

By abrogating all moral standards in their war against Israel, Arab and Muslim leaders initiated a process of moral collapse that has ended by soaking their own societies in blood. The terror they intended to inflict only upon others has rebounded with a hundred times greater horror upon their own lands.

Democracy requires you to learn how to lose as well as how to exercise power when you win. And that requires restraint all around. One of the reasons it works is because when you win you don't do things that are so upsetting to the losers that they feel like they have less, they have more to gain by turning over the system.

Donald Trump doesn't believe in much, doesn't want to do much.