Sarah Vowell

In death, you get upgraded into a saint no matter how much people hated you in life.

Relics are treasured as something close to the divine.

Jesus and Lincoln, Moses and Jefferson can seem so long gone, so unbelievable, so dead.

I think for any actor, for the roles they deeply, truly want? They always have to audition for them.

Secretary Clinton has dramatically changed the face of U.S. foreign policy globally for the good. But I wish she had been unleashed more by the White House.

Fear is a far more dominant force in human behaviour than euphoria - I would never have expected that or given it a moment's thought before, but it shows up in the data in so many ways.