Other people saying things

"I wanna see a better forever."

"I had in my hand the longest, best, and most personally challenging piece I'd ever written. It was not enough."

"Having established that shirt-criticism is shades of Stalin, Hitler, and Mao, what metaphor is left for people who, disliking a person's tweet, threaten to rape them?"

"Being criticized by a bunch of people is like being physically harmed, possibly by the government. How much like it? We'll get to that later."

"Even if a child in school does not have legal immigrant status, he or she not only has a right to be in school, but also an obligation."

"Should politicians wear uniforms like NASCAR drivers to identify their corporate sponsors?"

"Many of us have not forgotten the nightmare of Jonestown. The rest of you need to clean up your language."

"It was the moment when the archbishop of Canterbury finally acknowledged that the Anglican Communion, the global family of churches numbering about 80m of which he is head, may be impossible to hold together."

"This is why donors love overhead. It’s one number that allows you to compare the soup kitchen with the anti-corruption think tank. It smells all rigorous and objective, but it doesn’t require any actual work."

"Nobody would have placed such a sign on a car if it were not already understood by society that the life of a human achieves its peak value at birth and declines thereafter."

"I hold my tongue, resisting the temptation to tell them that Granddad Nashed died in 1948, so he wouldn’t have had much of a chance to threaten the Jewish state."

"Auctions are where one sees firsthand the cruel, stark truth of the world — that an unwanted thing is literally worthless."

"Wealthy people use cast-iron skillets and bad grammar, too. It’s just not their narrative and thus passes without remark."

"Republicans take organized labor more seriously than Democrats do."

"They organized a conference in Delaware, Ohio, at which they laid out a 13-point program for world peace."

"Too many Catholics, at least in this country, feel not that they are absolved from moral heroism, but rather that the church no longer speaks to some important parts of their lives."

"I just couldn't see myself going home — next thing you know, they're in the kitchen trying to cook their own food and burn the place down."