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.

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.

Where there's smoke, there's bound to be mirrors.

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.

America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant.

Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?