We're not going to be living in a world where white identity politics is the basis for a major political party.

Activists measure progress against the standard of perfection, or at least the most perfect possible choice. Historians gauge progress against what came before it.

Trump's not the future; his ideas and his coalition are a dead end.

President Obama is so much smarter and a better communicator than members of Congress in either party. The contrast, side by side, is almost ridiculous.

Barack Obama is an intellectual.

I never thought Hillary Clinton was a very good politician.

I'm convinced in 100 years Obama will have an important place in the civic pantheon of American life.

Donald Trump will be a tragedy, a sad joke in American history.

Everything on Twitter is true.

We're not going to be living in a world of abundant coal power in a hundred years.

Obamaism is the future of America.

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

If Hemingway is to believed, poverty is an invaluable school for a writer. Poverty makes a man clear-sighted. And so on. It's interesting that Hemingway realized this only when he became rich.

The only way you can predict the future is to build it.

a society in which there is widespread economic insecurity can turn freedom into a barren and vapid right for millions of people.

I like to read fiction best and I like to write fiction, too.

So I hope that there are people out there laughing. Laugh loud, please. Laugh until your lungs give out because I will have the last laugh.

After so many years it's embarrassing to admit that I don't honestly know how much I want to be directed.

I always feel like rejection is my petrol. That's what keeps me going.

What's important to a fashion designer? It's much more than learning how to make clothes. In fact, that merely makes you a dressmaker. It doesn't make you into a fashion designer.

All goal setting must be immediately followed by both the development of a plan, and massive and consistent action toward its fulfillment.