Computers have cut-and-paste functions. So does right-wing historical memory.

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.

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

What the trees can do handsomely-greening and flowering, fading and then the falling of leaves-human beings cannot do with dignity, let alone without pain.

'Tis the motive exalts the action 'Tis the doing and not the deed.

If you want to connect with people who are in distress and great grief and scared, you need to do it in a certain way. I move kind of slow. I talk kind of slow. I let them know that I respect them.

History is the sextant of states which, tossed by wind and current, would be lost in confusion if they could not fix their position.

Let your creative juices flow and don't be afraid to take chances!

What news? There's nothing to tell. I'm a nun.

The biggest problem is our lack of "response-ability." That’s what happens when money rather than love is the bottom line. People act like idiots.

The less there is of a phone, the more I like it.

The universe is not harmonious: you know that by looking outside.