In politics, if you're explaining, you're loosing.

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.

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

Presidents are also always storytellers, purveyors of useful national mythologies.

Dharma is not about believing in God. It’s about making the right choices, doing the right things and leading the right life.

The ordinary stories of our ordinary lives have extraordinary gifts coded within them. . .

Why is it when people are proud of me that my life sucks?”“Because growing up means making tough choices, and doing the right thing doesn’t necessarily mean doing the thing that feels good.

Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.

I'm trying not to put myself into anything I'm not 100 percent confident about.

Ive never met a popcorn ball I didnt like.

I felt alive when I read a script and acted out a scene, or sang a song. It was my dream. I'm just very lucky that I'm still doing it and able to earn a living from it.

No single piece of macroeconomic advice given by the experts to their government has ever had the results predicted.

Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible.

Thirty years ago, there was definitely a huge difference between men and women, and the man wanting to feel like the protector, and not scare the wife