Kurt Andersen quotes:

Anything remotely resembling news media is going to continue to migrate online until very little or none of it is produced on dead trees.

Maybe the reality-based fractions of red and blue America are reaching a sort of consensus: Just as Republicans are beginning to get why George Bush makes so many Americans want to rip their hair out, a lot of Democrats have finally, viscerally come to understand Clinton-loathing. Mutual, symmetrical disillusionment; it's a start.

Once a decade, once every eight years, Donald Trump finds some pretext to say I suck and that I'm bad.

I think we tend to be kind of ahistorical, and think that life as we are living it in the moment is all we know.

The mistrust of government that blossomed in the late '60s has become a chronic and in some ways pathological condition.

I often set two alarm clocks because I'm afraid the first one won't actually make me get up.

If partisanship makes us abandon intellectual honesty, if we oppose what our opponents say or do simply because they are the ones saying or doing it, we become mere political short-sellers, hoping for bad news because it's good for our ideological investment.

TED was simply wonderful, an intellectual spa, a 21st-century Chataqua, superb and singular.