I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at perspective.

I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at perspective.

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

When you're young, you don't feel iconoclastic - you're just kind of doing what seems natural, what moves you.

Not only was one cartoonist gunned down, but riots erupted around the world, resulting in the deaths of scores. No one could say toward what positive social end, yet free-speech absolutists were unchastened.

At some point free expression absolutism becomes childish and unserious.

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.