I guess it's true what they say: if you wait long enough everything changes.

It might interest you that just as the U.S. was ramping up its involvement in Vietnam, LBJ launched an illegal invasion of the Dominican Republic (April 28, 1965). (Santo Domingo was Iraq before Iraq was Iraq.)

[Donald] Trump is explained with the intersection of a number of things: our economic crisis, the way it's easier to blame immigrants, with the happenstance that he discovered that by bashing Latino immigrants and characterizing them as "rapists" and "murderers" and "scumbags," suddenly he's got this groundswell of support from a group of people who were raised on this vocabulary.

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

...sometimes a start is all we ever get.

I'm like everybody else: weak, full of mistakes, but basically good.

If you really want a prize, or if you really want applause, you should try to write as many books as humanly possible.