Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.
“From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician.”
“My first meeting as a senator, my first day, they were already talking about the next election. Part of that's the permanent campaign, part of that's a word I've been using more frequently, 'tribal.' Our politics has become tribal: It's us versus them.”