Marco Rubio turns a question about missing Senate votes into an attack on the mainstream media.

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?

If I could create something that is even minutely close to a small percentile of a genius as Cloud Atlas, I shall deem my life worthy!

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

There comes a time when you have to trust your own judgment, when you must close your eyes and let your instinct rule you.

The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.

We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations.

Do not entertain hopes for realization, but practice all your life.

If they asked how I died tell them: Still angry.

You need someone that behaves like James Bond more than you need someone that is an expert in some particular domain.

We must seek ways to solve difficulties such as hatred, envy and jealousy.

If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.