“Contempt is a dangerous emotion, luring us into believing that we unde...” — Scott Spencer Quote

“Contempt is a dangerous emotion, luring us into believing that we understand more than we do. Contempt causes us to jeer rather than speak, to poke at rather than touch.”

“If a book isn't teaching me something, pulling something out of me, then it will be dull for me and the reader.”

“Where I live, it's better to write in the morning because the night is really, really, really dark, and I do believe you'd go mad if you weren't asleep for most of it.”

“DACA led to a mass influx of illegal immigrant children crossing the Mexican border into the U.S. who came believing they would likely be able to stay.”

“If you look at the polling around climate change in this country before 'Sandy', that was kind of the low point in terms of Americans believing that climate change was real and that humans were causing it.”

“There are still people who believe in that and wake up every day believing it's possible, and invest their whole selves in that.”