Mostly, you become a writer not because you want to get rich or famous, but because you have to write; because there is something inside that must come out.

Politics is how you think about life itself.

Hillary Clinton was a cute, smart chick in the 1960s.

I really value unforgettable moments. Things you can tell people about. We have too few of them in our lives, and it is all too seldom that we can create one such moment for a stranger.

America is an incredibly polarized country politically. I think ANY Republican would start out with 42 percent of the vote.

On Twitter, people like me regularly get called "sore losers" by Trumpeters. It just makes me roll my eyes. This is not about winning and losing. We all lost, even them, they just don't know it yet.

One thing I am learning from the kitten is that everything he is doing seems to be in preparation for murder.