If you want to be good, all you've got to do is be good.

I think this is the other big issue that is not going away: Do we really believe that bit in the Constitution or not? I think we do.

I'm such a baby if I even get a flu.

I hear that in my head all the time now: 'Why don't you go and see?'.

I don't mind being criticized intelligently; although I don't love it.

When I wrote that [Donald] Trump piece, I had this uncomfortable experience of sensing a lot of things that were nascent, that I couldn't quite articulate. And one of them was this move toward anti-intellectualism. An anti-love move, even.

If you really think back to the great writers, there's a lot of happiness in Tolstoy; there's a lot of love, there's childbirth, and there's dances. And likewise in Shakespeare and even Cervantes, there's a lot of celebrations of the positive manifestations of life. Technically, I found it harder to do, so that's kind of a good late-life challenge - without getting sentimental or chirpy.