I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.

I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well-spent.

Once a week, I am a very desperate man.

At some point free expression absolutism becomes childish and unserious.

Anyone dumb enough to get his political information from a comic strip deserves what he gets at the polls.

Most writers seem to prefer the morning, or they feel at their best in the morning. Ideas are popping into your head while you're in the shower. And that's true for me, as well.

America is one of the few places where the failure to promote oneself is widely regarded as arrogance.