It's easy to respond to the hate cries, usually carefully wrapped up in a flag. Perhaps hate is the greatest simplifier of them all. It's the man with the throb in his voice, the man with the easy formula, the man who tries to shout to my emotions instead of speaking to my mind, the man who is sure he is right that I run from like hell.

What seems most likely is generally true.

Night thoughts aren't to be trusted.

cruelty is the only thing that strikes me as completely unforgivable. The unpardonable sin.

a fair degree of literacy of speech ... is increasingly rare in politicians and not necessarily regarded as an asset.

People don't really change. Not fundamentally. When they surprise us, it is because we failed to recognize their potentialities.

You can't remain inactive in the face of injustice without, to some extent, being guilty of it.