Everyone gets meaning in different ways.

I never know what I'm going to do for the Post next. Two weeks ago I had a piece on Homeland Security. This is one of my pig ongoing projects. How unprepared we are for a terrorist attack.

... Washington is, for one thing, the news capital of the world. And for another, it is a company town. Most of the interesting people in Washington either work for the government or write about it.

I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight.

The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again.

I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.

Its always in the second administration when things start to go sour. They circle the wagons.

Women will have all the power one day anyway. It's just a matter of time.

We're newspaper junkies; I can't imagine life without a newspaper.

I was brought up by an Episcopalian father and Presbyterian mother in nondenominational Army chapels all over the world and never really had much religious experience.

Every poll shows that most journalists are Democrats.

Life is an ocean and every ocean necessitates right thinking and right action or else sinking becomes the only fate realisable!

This world is not at fault, the world is beautiful. If your understanding is wrong, what can the world do?

You cannot know where your people are going if you don't know where your people have been.

The moment you feel joy, the moment you laugh and change your perception, you change your immunity, your body chemistry, and your whole well-being.

You can't think on purpose about somebody or something. Either you think about them naturally or you don't think at all.

If you win without sacrifice you enjoy it but it's more satisfying when you have struggled.

Fearful as reality is, it is less fearful than evasions of reality. Look steadfastly into the slit, pinpointed malignant eyes of reality as an old-hand trainer dominates his wild beasts.

To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.

Lovecraft gives me the pip as he uses so much description that needs heavily condensing.

Life is so short, it seems careless not to use it all.