Obama behaves like a centrist who leans tentatively left on certain social programs but boldly right on military force and civil liberties.

Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures.

Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand - the one doing the important job - unnoticed.

Here among the constant ruins and rebuilding of civilizations lies the coexistence of diversity and intolerance.

Officers are taught to use all the tricks and lies that courts permit within the scope of the Fifth Amendment's shield against self-incrimination.

If you stand with the Customs and Border Protection officers who staff the passport booths at Dulles airport near the nation's capital, their task seems daunting.

Caricatures created by politics never fit comfortably into the Oval Office.

Obama has already rejected the bright sunlight of public knowledge, which is democracy's great disinfectant and cure.

Emotions like these didn't happen to regular, everyday people. They couldn't or else the entire world would be fornicating all the time.

Dear God, teach me to be careless.

Anything is possible

YOU are a genius!... and I am a genius because I married you.

I love Françoise Hardy. She's my dream, she's just amazing.

To make your life a work of art, you must have the material to work with. The race, any race, is just such an experience.

I came home, the car was in the dining room. "How did you get the car in here?" "Easy, I took a left at the kitchen."

I have musician friends who play too much golf, and they're not as good at music anymore.

Who wouldn't prefer having breakfast in bed to getting up at the crack of dawn and having a cup of coffee in a studio makeup department?

Seek the sound that never ceases. Seek the sun that never sets.