Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness.

One gains a double benefit in writing about the past, conjuring up how things might have been, and at the same time acquiring a different perspective on the present.

My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.

I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.

Slowly but surely, we are acquiring that famous culture of democracy, which is our objective.

I have always adopted nondiscriminatory policies toward the LGBTQ community in my public offices in local and state government.

I covered Congress, and everyone always wanted me to be a political reporter.

Part of Obamacare eliminated the private sector financial market that engages in giving college student loans. I mean, now the federal government has taken over college student loans, so I sit back and strategically look at this and say this just cannot be happening.