Ben Carson says his flat tax will be around 15 percent. And by God, if he ever shows you the details, you'll see how awesome and deficit-killing it is.

Rising inequality is a cultural and economic cancer on a lot of different levels.

[Ronald]Reagan and[George W.] Bush were far more radical than other presidents.

There's no liberal equivalent of Donald Trump.

The ability to focus on a single task for an extended period is a talent that’s underappreciated - especially by extroverts, who continue to exercise an unhealthy hegemony over most workplaces.

Smart hiring managers in the modern world should be asking, “How long can you concentrate on a task before you have to take a break?” I wonder how many of them do?

If you don’t want your followers to give up in disgust, your inspiration needs to be in the service of goals that are at least attainable.

The younger you are, the more likely you are to have grown up in a (mostly) lead-free environment, and that means you're less likely to have committed a felony or gotten sent to prison.

Because prison sentences in America tend to be long, de-incarceration lags falling crime rates by a fair amount, but eventually it does catch up.

Black crime rates fell more steeply than white crime rates, and now black incarceration is falling more steeply than white incarceration.

Of course the system can be changed. Why would I bother spending 14 years of my life blogging if I didn't believe that?

Love that is fueled solely by feelings will suddenly find itself out of gas on a long road with no gas stations.

Hm. Didn’t you use to be a lot smaller?”“Yes, ” said Jinx. “Because I used to be six.

Revenge, ' he said, 'is a human invention. It serves no purpose.

Among my friends, I'm not a little Boy Scout, and they love my humor, thank God.

Be willing to work for nothing in things you think are stupid. Make work for yourself. Make your own luck. Don't complain. Hopefully, the work will find you if you are ready.

To every one [Nature] appears in a form of his own. She hides herself in a thousand names and terms, and is always the same.

You either believe marriage and human sexuality are sacred, or you do not.

If we can remember the feeling of love we once had, we can die without ever going away.

Don't be afraid to have nothing.

I began to feel lighthearted. Don't ever do that; it tempts some dark and evil force abroad in the universe.