Peggy Noonan is not as good a columnist as my colleague Kathleen Parker, in my opinion, but they share something related to their Pulitzers. Kathleen won in in 2010. They won it for a similar reason. They broke from their crowd, and sprinted away. They delivered the politically unexpected take, at some peril to their readership.

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.

I think politics is everything.

Donald Trump is a boor, and cannot stop being a boor.

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

I am deebly self-conscious, and bad.