Doing something nice for myself is not selfish.

Setting boundaries is a way of caring for myself. It doesn't make me mean, selfish, or uncaring because I don't do things your way. I care about me too.

Go according to your curiosity.

History wasn't just a collection of dates I memorized from textbooks

Communication is truth

I grew up with a very big extended family, with a lot of aunts. We had about five or six houses on one street.

When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.

I came in making choices about how I deploy aesthetics and imagery strategically. It seems to me that's the only legitimate way of making work.

I didn't write much until I turned 40. Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discipline of New Testament studies and a sense of the ruling elite in theology and biblical studies.

It's a journey; it's a fight everyday.

A real gimlet is half gin and half Rose's lime juice and nothing else.

[Donald Trump] can do it [build the wall] by executive order by just re-programming money within the within the Immigration Service.