Quotes from Thomas McNamee

You can make a lot of mistakes, as long as you try to tune in to how your cat understands that you love her. It does require paying attention.

This will brand you as a member of the "fact-based community," and if, as is likely, your interlocutor is a member of the "faith-based community," no amount of mere fact is going to get you anywhere.

There is a whole culture in the United States—a growing one, it seems—that consciously walls out facts it doesn't want to know. These facts cluster together: evolution by natural selection; climate change; our society's growing recognition of equal rights for all persons; the citizen's responsibilities to the citizenry; the damage humans have done to natural systems and our duty to try to heal them.