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

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.

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.

College was at the heart of his sentimental imagination.

Stories are "how we organize the chaos of experience into the order we require just a carry-on." Joan Gideon

Presidents are also always storytellers, purveyors of useful national mythologies.

In the real world, you can make your own miracles

Determination takes us to some interesting places.

What did you do to her?” There were a thousand things he’d

Baseball has all the money.

Humans cannot produce viable offspring with our closest animal cousin: the chimpanzee. We cannot impregnate a chimp. So you know what that means? No condoms.

Wasting time with the wrong person is just time wasted.

[Raymond] Chandler, I reread him, and there's a lot of bad writing there. I don't think he knew much about people.

Learn to become still. And to take your attention away from what you don't want, and all the emotional charge around it, and place your attention on what you wish to experience.

You mean to say he became mad deliberately?' ...Nothing is more likely,' said the duke.

Good timing is invisible. Bad timing sticks out a mile.