Inevitably, if we are to grow and change as adults, we must gradually learn to confront the challenges, paradoxes, problems and painful reality of an insecure world.

It's like I have this large black hole in my brain and it's sucking the life out of me. The answers are in there so I sit for hours and stare. No matter how hard and long I look, I only see darkness.

But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.

All of my children are ideologically and politically in sync with me, they all have authentic Christian faith. It's something I'm very grateful for.

The IRA have nowhere to go. I've stripped away all their excuses, one by one.

I still follow Chelsea's fortunes.

But there is scant evidence to tie Saddam to terrorist organizations, and even less to the Sept. 11 attacks.

It's almost a sort of fairy story tale, just what a novelist would write about a discovery.

I favor an aggressive expansion of America's intelligence capabilities domestically and around the world.

Hoary idea, in any case, expecting a woman to surrender her name to her husband's in exchange for his. Why? Would any man submerge his identity and heritage to the woman he wed?

I went out and got little jobs. I was selling candy as a teenager, selling newspapers. But as I got older, I didn't want to sell that anymore. I wanted to make more money.