Is puppy love the reason so many Americans are blind to the incompetence and waste of Republicans - who at a minimum are supposed to be good money managers - running Iraq reconstruction?

As a columnist, I realize that whatever amount of corruption I expose, half my readers will block it out, although they may get a frisson of joy in the process.

The Greatest Generation got to save old tires, dig a Victory Garden and forgo sugar. The Richest Generation is being asked to shop.

Here we will have possibly a bunch of tax dodgers deciding the election.

Is this the Olympics or One Life to Live?

What are movies for if not to have the good guys triumph over the bad ones?

Don't care what people sayJust follow your own wayDon't give up and use the chanceTo return to innocence.That's not the beginning of the endThat's the return to yourselfThe return to innocence.

Stretch out your hand! Let no human soul wait for a benediction.

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

Many states can no longer afford to support public education, public benefits, public services without doing something about the exorbitant costs that mass incarceration have created.

I've done modeling since I was 18, but it didn't take off until I moved to Los Angeles. Modeling has always been something I've been really good at, and has been something that's helped pay bills.

I'm more of a fan of combat games than first-person shooters.

You have to know that as long as you love who you are - your morals, your values, that type of stuff - you're OK.

Man is the dwarf of himself.

Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.

The aria, after all, is the soul of opera.