It doesn't entirely make sense that if 51 senators are from one party, and they can stick together, they can do whatever they want. Especially in this age of blatant, shameless gerrymandering.

I very much believe in the Intentional Fallacy. If Donald Trump lies and dopes and bumbles and staggers his way into peace in the middle east, he gets credit for it. He owns it.

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.

I think we too often go soft in trying to spare people the agony of confronting reality.

I believe the publisher is a member of the editorial board, and I think his vote would matter.

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.

I read a lot of conservatives. They are thoughtful and intelligent and annoying, and I always read them because they have viewpoints that challenge my own, even thought they are wrong. But this does me no good because, being intelligent and sophisticated human beings, they are all contemptuous of Trump. They hate him. They find him...vulgar.