Catholic and Jew - it's very closely related, a lot of holidays, a lot of guilt, a lot of the same things going on.

It seems that there's a constant humbling - I don't know if that's the right word - because things are disproved all the time with new discoveries, at least that's the way it feels sometimes in the layman's world. Like, people will make proclamations of something to be true, and then 50 years later that's proven wrong because there's something else.

When I was a kid, there was kind of a given that there were some really bad, racist police out there. That's just what America was like when I was a kid.

There's a lot of magic in science, so to speak.

The Oscar nominations are out, and they're so white a grand jury has decided not to indict them.

You could be a music prodigy at age 4, like Mozart, but you can't be a writing prodigy.

Saying slavery was the cause of secession isn't politically correct; it's correct correct.