Ask creative people where they get their ideas, and they will roll their eyes. It's the most common question, but it's also a bad one because the answer is inevitably disappointing. From the inside, creativity seems like an arduous task, often involving plebeian, imperfect choices, driven less by inspiration than by deadline.

I don't consider Hillary Clinton to be the lesser of two evils.

I personally favor old mechanical watches, but my snobbery does not extend to demanding that all people wear them. My snobbery demands that no one wear a digital.

When my daughter was a senior in high school, I remember noticing, almost in passing, that her friends were very cute. Which made me realize her friends' fathers probably found Molly very cute.

I think politics is everything.

Knowing the identity of the leaker helps you analyze the likelihood that the material is real.

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.