Donald Trump is showing the intellectual rigor, and emotional maturity, of a second grader. That's hardly being age-ist. This is a man who, when accused by Hillary Clinton of being a Putin puppet, actually responded: "No puppet! No puppet! YOU'RE the puppet."

I think Marco Rubio could never have recovered from revealing himself to be pathetic.

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

I don't think the people of Chicago should be robbed of their birthright to be perennial losers.

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.

I think Trump wants to be dictator. I don't think the courts will allow him to be, and I think that after months of revolting sycophancy, neither will Congress. He will sink to such a popularity trough that even those spineless, craven gophers will cave.

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.