I have a file of letters and bits of ephemera from friends who have died. I have had lots of friends who died of AIDS.

The [Donald] Trump campaign turned on a dime instantly as soon as those WikiLeaks dumps started.

I don't feel passionately about politics, i'm not a political person. Is it easy for me to get fired up about someone's position on climate change? No, it's not. On most of these issues, I can see both sides.

after a generation or two of shedding the deliberate political encumbrances to war ... of dropping Congress from the equation altogether, of super-empowering the presidency with total war-making power and with secret new war-making resources that answer to no one but him, of insulating the public from not only the cost of war but sometimes even the knowledge that it's happened - war making has become almost an autonomous function of the American state. It never stops.

Sarah Palin is now the guy who hangs out in the high school parking lot, showing off his car, five years after he graduated.

if you want to achieve immortality, see what you can do about getting yourself turned into a Pentagon program.

Anything I really want I can find online.