Andrew Evans

“The written word is so much like evidence — like something that can be used against you later.”
― Margaret Atwood, Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing

“The Trump campaign had, perhaps less than inadvertently, replicated the scheme from Mel Brooks’s The Producers. In that classic, Brooks’s larcenous and dopey heroes, Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom, set out to sell more than 100 percent of the ownership stakes in the Broadway show they are producing. Since they will be found out only if the show is a hit, everything about the show is premised on its being a flop. Accordingly, they create a show so outlandish that it actually succeeds, thus dooming our heroes.”
― Michael Wolff, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House

“Time spent with Trump on the campaign plane was often an epic dissing experience: everybody around him was an idiot.”
― Michael Wolff, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House

“But not only didn’t he read, he didn’t listen. He preferred to be the person talking. And he trusted his own expertise—no matter how paltry or irrelevant—more than anyone else’s. What’s more, he had an extremely short attention span, even when he thought you were worthy of attention”
― Michael Wolff, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House