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

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.

College was at the heart of his sentimental imagination.

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

He asked me once what I wanted when I died, what I wanted out of life, and I told him I just wanted more happy memories than sad ones.

Wherever you are, whoever you are, I am touching you and feeling you, not with my hand, but with my feelings and love.

It is impossible to find peace in the world if we can't create peace within ourselves.

I am not a prisoner of my sexuality like men younger than myself although I write about being a prisoner.

PLOT is CHARACTER revealed by ACTION.

She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations.

Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

It is not surprising, then, that in the decade since Oslo began, Arafat used all the resources placed at his disposal to fan the flames of hatred against Israel.

Scientists have long known that Darwinism is false. They have adhered to the myth out of self-interest and a zealous desire to put down God.