Hillary Clinton rubs people the wrong way, for valid reasons.

I believe that the fragile-flower, idea-intolerant society of victimhood that is being cultivated in many colleges today is really bad.

Mostly, you become a writer not because you want to get rich or famous, but because you have to write; because there is something inside that must come out.

The verb "Garland" should be created. It would mean to unfairly put a stinking albatross around someone's neck, to make him unemployable.

The horrifying thing is that nearly half of America seems in synch with xenophobia and race-baiting.

Editorials are editorials. They a supposed to have an opinion, even a very strong one.

The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right.

I once found myself driving, smoking a cigar, taking notes, and talking on the phone at the same time. I only became completely aware of this when I had to shift, and realized something had to give.

One thing I am learning from the kitten is that everything he is doing seems to be in preparation for murder.

I think Marco Rubio could never have recovered from revealing himself to be pathetic.

Every single fat comic uses his weight as a punchline. There is something sad about that.

You mind is well-spring of life.

This bed yawnsbeneath the weightof our absent selves.

I'll see you tomorrow, Mare. You know you want to see my ring.""And your tat, " she said, a smile in her voice.

Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage.

Some people wear their smile like a disguise. Those people who smile a lot, watch their eyes. I know 'cause I'm like that a lot. You think everything's ok, and it is . . . 'till it's not.

What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.

None of the guys did anything. We never did anything. I never really got into the workout room until I was about 40 years old. I was pretty strong and I didn't think I needed that much.

My father worked at the Naval Ordnance Lab, and they had a nine-hole course on the property. You paid a quarter.

I would, if checking boxes in a questionnaire, say I would oppose abortion except when the life of the mother is in danger.

We live in what may be the most anti-intellectual period in the history of Western civilization.