The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again.

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.

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.

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.

The more steps you take towards the end, the fewer steps you have to take towards the end!

I look at myself, and how much I've gotten just because I play a sport well.

Teachers support evaluations based on multiple measures: student growth, classroom observation and feedback from peers and parents.

But I do believe in the paranormal, that there are things our brains just can't understand.

I didn't used to wear a watch. Now I have a SPOT watch, which I wear all the time.

You have to kill the bad guy.

The bit that one eates, no friend makes.

... the best missile defense system of all would be a just and lasting peace.

Sometimes what we want or don't want doesn't matter in the end.

Teenage rebellion is for suburban schoolchildren. Get over it.