Part of it is eight years of a black president, and white America still lost their [minds] about that. Part of it is a Republican politics of vicious, vicious partisan [stuff] that has completely poisoned what we would call the political rhetorical sphere. All of these things come together in a perfect storm.

The greatest myth of all is what America is. I think that America is such an incredibly dynamic place because of immigration.

We can speculate. Last time I checked, the future doesn't take my advice.

You whispered my full name and we fell asleep in each other's arms and I remember how the next morning you were gone, completely gone, and nothing in my bed or the house could have proven otherwise.

As expected: she, the daughter of the Fall, recipient of its heaviest radiation, loved atomically.

If you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level any reflection of themselves

I always wanted to read. I always thought I was going to be a historian. I would go to school and study history and then end up in law school, once, I ran out of loot trying to be a history high school teacher. But my dream was always to place myself in a situation where I was always surrounded by books.