What do you do in a novel? You take recognizable characters from your own life, and you fantasize about what they're really like.

You can be as critical as you want of Black Lives Matter. I'm critical of him, too. But to say that they have caused shooting of police officers, I think is a bridge too far.

Cynicism is what passes for insight among the mediocre.

The two-war strategy was a product of the cold war, when we had to have the ability to fight the Russians on the plains of Europe and fight the Chinese on the Korean peninsula at the same time. That costs an awful lot of money.

Dictating to dictators doesn't work; they are congenitally delusional about their own indispensability.

For the past several years, I've been harboring a fantasy, a last political crusade for the baby-boom generation. We, who started on the path of righteousness, marching for civil rights and against the war in Vietnam, need to find an appropriately high-minded approach to life's exit ramp.

You know, larger-than-life politicians have larger-than-life strengths and larger-than-life weaknesses.