I am literally smaller than life. I am an unextraordinary-looking person. I've seen people trying to hide their disappointment when they meet me, and I have to watch them get over it.

All my brothers and sisters have stories about Dad like this. I remember, when my sister was about to beat him in checkers for the first time, he knocked the board over.

Google started as a free search engine. It's still free, but now it's making a lot of money on ads, right? A lot of money.

Anyone who agrees to be interviewed must decide where to draw the line between what is public and what is private. But the line can shift, depending on who is asking the questions. What puts someone on guard isn't necessarily the fear of being 'found out.' It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.

Rapists who might've been convicted were free to assault other women.

A lot of the things that we think of as being racial differences are really class differences in America.

What puts someone on guard isn't necessarily the fear of being found out.