I think that's the thing that memoir can do more than anything it does; it testifies and bears witness to the existence of people whose lives, pleasures and virtues would never have been testified to without my having done it. That makes me really glad.

The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me.

My father died in my arms. That's tumult. That's everything exploding.

If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.

Tweet, tweet, you're alive, you ignorant asshole.

The National Rifle Association is a domestic terrorist organization that tacitly supports the killing of children more than it supports reasoned gun legislation.

I want saner gun laws. I think all these automatic weapons should be banned, big clips and handguns should be banned. As far as I'm concerned, shotguns and hunting weapons are all that we should allow in America.