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

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.

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.

Numbers do not feel. Do not bleed or weep or hope. They do not know bravery or sacrifice. Love and allegiance. At the very apex of callousness, you will find only ones and zeros.

Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.

I was the walrus, but now I am John...and so my friends, you'll just have to carry on. The dream is over.

I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city and in the way of Congress.

The art of delegation is one of the key skills any entrepreneur must master.

Had they known at these moments to be quietly joyful? Most likely not. People mostly did not know enough when they were living life that they were living it.

Wine-Counsels seldome prosper.

The basic principle is that the losers have to confess, not the victors. When they do it, it's a crime. When we do it, it's not. And more generally, it's the defeated who are tried, not the victors.

In spiritual things, this world is all wintertime so long as the Saviour is away.