I hoped there would be a better process. But it is final -- I will not participate .

We are only an instant, that's true. But we are eternal.

Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.

I've always loved Halloween: the one day of the year when you can blatantly dress as your number-one obsession and people will smile instead of snicker.

Nowhere can I think so happily as in a train.

Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.

Somewhere in the dim recesses of the journalistic soul lies the horrible suspicion: This is really a pretty shallow and maybe unseemly way for a grownup to make a living.

I probably spent more money trying to do things that I didn't need to do.

being Cassandra is a principled choice when there is cause for alarm.

Once you slay one fear, you can conquer many fears.

Politics is tricky; it cuts both ways. Every time you make a choice, it has unintended consequences.