If your time hasn't come not even a doctor can kill you.

Ive summarized dozens of books in my literary career; its become rather second nature.

In American religious history, theological qualms tend to get pushed aside when politics intervenes.

In politics, if you're explaining, you're loosing.

It takes two things to make a political lie work: a powerful person or institution willing to utter it, and another set of powerful institutions to amplify it.

Only liberals know how to make you freer on the job, which is where most of us suffer the gravest indignities in our lives.

I cant summarize my favorite movie, Jacques Tatis Play Time. You just have to see it.

No historical analogies are exactly precise.

When legitimately constituted state authority stands down in the face of armed threats, the very foundation of the republic is in danger.

Twelve-year-olds are eager to turn everything into arguments but don't have the cognitive skills to win them.

College was at the heart of his sentimental imagination.

Paroxysms of pain and twinges of desire leach from universal sources. All human suffering buttons itself to the pang of wanting.

I like life. It's something to do. Somewhere on this globe every 10 seconds there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.

A fool and his money are soon parted. It takes creative tax laws for the rest.

Human beings are not perfect. Their institutions are not perfect, but they have to keep trying. And America has to help people keep trying.

I love comedy. It's where my heart is.

That might sound shocking to some - and don't worry, I don't see myself as a king.

Better untaught than ill-taught.

Fidelity is simply daring to be true in small things as well as great.

'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.

Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.