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

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 don't think I could ever love someone with whom I fundamentally disagreed, politically.

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

I believe that sensitivity to issues of race and ethnicity is important, and nuanced, even more so when it intersects with the issue of free speech.

I have some advice: Unless she is pregnant or handicapped, don't give up a seat to a woman unless you KNOW she is well over 60. Trust me on this, even if I am a liberal.

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.