I watch CNN, it's so much anger and hatred and just the hatred.

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?

Being happy is a great science. If you are not happy, do not be confused. Happiness is hard to achieve.

Science Fiction has always attracted more talented writers than it could reward adequately.

As we review our worries, we should make it a habit each day to God, "what is it I should focus on today"?

But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness.

For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union.

I am bigger on the inside But you have to come inside to see me

If your career is a bad boyfriend, it is healthy to remember you can always leave and go sleep with somebody else.

She cared about him too much, and he was a dangerous person to love. He wouldn't love her back.

I've always been a sort of curious and restless person. I've always wrestled with ambition.

witch-hunting misogyny is fiercely recurrent in this nation, even if its forms vary with the ages.