On the Medicare side, they limited their cuts to far in the future, and to providers.

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?

Your heart is a powerful force. Use it consciously.

All of today's DNA, strung through all the cells of the earth, is simply an extension and elaboration of [the] first molecule.

Create hell and people will be impatient to get there, just out of curiosity

I think that with beauty, people jump to the end instead of starting from the beginning with a good lotion or prep.

If self-efficacy is lacking, people tend to behave ineffectually, even though they know what to do.

I suppose what I like about Zen is that the teachers are constantly questioning your insight and challenging it, looking for sloppiness or laziness in it, and ways you can go past that.

When I stub my toe it's like I pressed a button that plays all the curse words I know.

As I examine my life through this book, I can't help but wonder if my mother was right. Maybe I really was what I ate. And maybe if she'd let me eat a little more sugar, I'd have come out sweeter.

Unions are about the collective leverage, the power of numbers versus the power of capital.

When you try to battle with John Ford, you have to give in.