She said it had been hijacked shortly after takeoff. By this time, the plane had been in the air - again, I'm presuming that it took off on time - for over an hour.

The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly held that marriage is one of the most fundamental rights that we have as Americans under our Constitution.

The reality is that our independent judiciary is the most respected branch of our government and the envy of the world.

It's easy to imagine an infinite number of situations where the government might legitimately give out false information.

My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit.

The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional.

No one aspires as a child to grow up and enter into a domestic partnership. But they do aspire as children to grow up and be married.

Well, she managed to - Barbara was capable of doing practically anything if she set her mind to it. In retrospect, I'm not surprised that Barbara managed to get collect calls through.

Would you like Fox's right to free press put up to a vote and say well, if five states have approved it, let's wait till the other 45 states do?

Horrible things can happen to you, and horrible things happened to us on September 11. But if we look for love and happiness and fulfillment, we will find it.

You have to take strength from the people that love you and the people that love Barbara and the huge number of expressions of sympathy and compassion and support. That has been extremely moving.

I live a pretty anonymous life.

What creates reality is not reality, but you.

You are drained by foolish actions and others.

I steal things from people, characteristics, and I just stock them in my head like a library to use for characters in the future.

It's very dangerous to mix up the words natural and habitual. We have been trained to be quite habitual at communicating in ways that are quite unnatural.

I am one of those authors who believes (perhaps foolishly) that she is in complete control of the story.

Where the lips are silent the heart has a thousand tongues.

Does virtual intimacy degrade our experience of the other kind and, indeed, of all encounters, of any kind?

There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!