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

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.

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.

Last week I did a piece for Style on advice to Laura Bush about how to help her husband. This week it's religion. It just depends on what I find interesting at the moment.

Knowledge is the most prized commodity in the entire universe, and it is infinite in its commodity.

John Quincy Adams' depression was treated by his aunt with some reliable remedies, first sleep and then compassion. She said, " He was half cared for by having someone to care for him.

When we love and respect people, revealing to them their value, they can begin to come out from behind the walls that protect them.

I ignored your aura but it grabbed me by the hand, like the moon pulled the tide, and the tide pulled the sand.

It is on opinion only that government is founded; and this maxim extends to the most despotic and most military governments, as well as to the most free and most popular.

Today the sort of thing for a guy in England growing up is that you have to suppress all your emotions. It's almost like you have to sit back and be cool.

And I love doing my own projects; that's what I've always wanted to do.

[The film Woman Walks Ahead] is from a long time ago. I wrote that ages ago. It looks gorgeous and Jessica [Chastain] is so good that I've got high hopes.

Never before in the history of the planet have so many people, on their own, had the ability to find so much information about so many things and about so many other people.

We decided that it was no good asking what is the meaning of life, because life isn't an answer, life is the question, and you, yourself, are the answer.