The case against Jeff Sessions was threadbare three decades ago. It's based on hearsay and innuendo and a joke he made about the Klan.

Al Gore's performances could be a case study in abnormal-psychology classes.

Bill Clinton was a liberal who could appeal to conservative-leaning Bubba voters.

Comedians still make fun of Bill's out-of-control appetites, but with Hillary, the mockery is about how she lets nothing be out of control.

There's no wobble in Bush. If anything, the opposite. Right after hello, the next words out of his mouth are: I've never been more convinced that the decisions I made are the right decisions.

In person, George W. Bush is extremely forceful. He has a restless energy when he sits in a chair, and nearly leaps out of it when making certain points.

Almost all political campaigns involve falsity and playacting.

Message to Obama: Fighting the Clinton machine won't be as easy as picking up favorable press clips.

Clinton's fakery was so deft and deeply ingrained that it was impossible to tell where it ended and the real Bill Clinton began. This constituted a kind of political genius.

It is Hillary's lot in life not to be able to fake it well...

Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists.

God Hold us to that which drew us first, when the Cross was the attraction, and we wanted nothing else.

The PCT would lead me to an otherworld, through the sadness I felt here, out of it.

The world is not magic — and that’s the most magical thing about it.

Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.

Do you believe today that the right to privacy does exist in the Constitution?

Far away is far away only if you don't go there.

Sometimes I still don't know if I'm prepared to go through the entire season, dealing with the different personalities, the crowds, the politics.

Think you can't write women? Don't. Write people and make them women.

Born of the sensibility, art sows and creates life in its turn.

I have spent many years trying to recover a common language, one that can cross the distance between people.