The verb "Garland" should be created. It would mean to unfairly put a stinking albatross around someone's neck, to make him unemployable.

The intelligent Trump supporter will be someone who is so cynical about politics that he wants the world blown up, and doesn't care if the person doing the blowing up is an obnoxious, infantile vulgarian. I don't know where to find these people. Do you?

International politics is not my strong suit. The older I get the less certain I am that I even HAVE a strong suit.

The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right.

Nationalism and patriotism are two sides of the same coin, and the most nationalistic / patriotic country in the last 300 years was Germany during the Third Reich.

Most men I know adore women, and I am including gay men. I think studies on jury selection show that the biggest critics of women - people less likely to trust their character or judgment - are women.

My neighborhood is fairly white, yet the local middle school is all black. It is bad. It is very bad.