That's what I like to call him, "the current president." I find it difficult to say or type his name, George W. Bush. I like to call him "the current president" because it's a hopeful phrase, implying that his administration is only temporary.

Behind every bad law, a deep fear.

Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.

What are you hiding? No one ever asks that.

Assassins and presidents invite the same basic question: Just who do you think you are?

American history is a quagmire, and the more one knows, the quaggier the mire gets.

Once or twice a day, I am enveloped inside what I like to call the Impenetrable Shield of Melancholy. This shield, it is impenetrable. Hence the name. I cannot speak. And while I can feel myself freeze up, I can't do anything about it.