“We were allowed to read Chaucer, Spencer, Milton, Wordsworth, and Wallace Stevens without having that poison of gender and racial resentment poured in our ears, and instead simply reveled in language of extraordinary complexity and beauty.”
“I met a person named Walter Grinder, who’s not well-known, but he was a person who really spent his whole life reading books, trying to understand them, and being curious. I was so taken with that – I think I was 13 at the time – and I just saw that was possible as a life.”
“It must be put before the Scottish people as to whether they want to choose between a hard Brexit and a European future.”
It would be a serious mistake to conflate the FSM with anything like an extreme right-wing party or as an extreme populist party, like Orbán in Hungary or the Polish right-wing.
“She was always Hillary to me”
“You might be choosing between something that looks great on a resume and something that pushes you out of your comfort zone. I would give a lot of thought to the latter option”
“I think that at this moment of crisis for the things we all believe in—both libertarians and liberals—we have to come together and find new ways of bridging our differences and offering a positive alternative to those who want to take society backwards, both to the failings of fascism and communism.”
“My book has sort of a happy Washington ending where once they discover that the election was rigged they do something about it, and what’s so sad is that for the last year and a half, Congress hasn’t been able to find its way to do anything about any of these issues.”
