Trump is what Obama critics think Obama is: Someone who's focused on symbolism rather than substance.

Activists measure progress against the standard of perfection, or at least the most perfect possible choice. Historians gauge progress against what came before it.

Trump's not the future; his ideas and his coalition are a dead end.

President Obama is so much smarter and a better communicator than members of Congress in either party. The contrast, side by side, is almost ridiculous.

Barack Obama is an intellectual.

I never thought Hillary Clinton was a very good politician.

I'm convinced in 100 years Obama will have an important place in the civic pantheon of American life.

Donald Trump will be a tragedy, a sad joke in American history.

Everything on Twitter is true.

We're not going to be living in a world of abundant coal power in a hundred years.

We're not going to be living in a world where white identity politics is the basis for a major political party.

I may be small, but I've got friends that make me ten feet tall.

The only way to be inclined to write is to write to your inclination.

The Bible is not a book of answers but a library of questions.

Do not be surprised that the world hates you, the truth is coming from the atheists I know.

I am vain, or once was, and one of my vanities was to feign that I was not.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself.

It is absolutely impossible for a subject to see or have insight into something while leaving itself out of the picture, so impossible that knowing and being are the most opposite of all spheres.

Every article I see is dope this, junkie that, whiskey this - that ain't my title.

If your culture is not peaceful, throw it from your life! If your religion is not peaceful, throw it from your life! Anything which is not peaceful is worthless! Throw it from your life!

The film Black Orpheus is one of my favorite films of all time, which is set in Carnival in Brazil.