Social climbing and power climbing -- the two are often synonymous -- are what make Washington run. ... If there are more than two people together, if there are three, one of them is climbing.

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.

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

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.

Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and the virtuous.

If we preach God, it means we preach light. Consequently we preach freedom from ignorance.

When we connect with ourselves in love we can connect with others and the planet in love.

Men perish because they cannot join the beginning with the end.

Thus in Christianity the alienation had become total, and it was this total alienation that was the biggest obstacle to the progress of self-consciousness.

Everyone in rock 'n roll including myself was touched by Elvis's spirit, I was, and always will be a fan.

Meta-design is much more difficult than design; it's easier to draw something than to explain how to draw it.

The guy who says, 'I love the challenge of managing,' is one step from being out of a job. I don't welcome any challenge. I'd rather have nine guys named Robinson.

85 percent of the gravity of the universe has a point of origin about which we know nothing.

It's only a world, after all, and they're just sand grains in the desert, worlds.