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

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.

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

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

Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint.

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.

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