There's no embassy for the United States in Iran. So, Iranians process those in other countries.

There are many things we can live without but a sense of humor is not one of them!

If you spend enough time in or around Washington, you'll meet amazing people who work for the government.

At work, conversation increases productivity. And yet people go into work, put on their headphones. In one interview, somebody called it - they become pilots in their own cockpits.

My job is to try and bring attention to places that don't have it

You can find inspiration when you're not even looking for it.

For the past 21 years, I've been privileged to be part of an amazing organization called the International Women's Media Foundation.

If image is everything, how can the Democratic presidential hopefuls compete with a President fresh from a war victory.

It's always unfortunate when a reporter is sent behind bars for failing to turn over sources. There's no way to say what the long-term outcome will be.

Is this administration, the Clinton administration, an administration that needed defending?

Politics is in my blood. I'd love to be involved in 2008, maybe even '06.

We are to give (and take) true love without falling into the narcissistic habit of only trying to take it in.

My stories are never quite good enough

One woman reads another's character Without the tedious trouble of deciphering

I whisper and you close your eyes. I speak and you turn away. If I scream, will you finally hear me beg you to hold me close to you, promise you'll never let go?

Weep if you must Parting is hell But life goes on So sing as well.

There's nothing political about American literature.

Sometimes you have to do things when sad things happen.

I'm trying to do the kind of projects that I want to see in the theatre.

When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.

My thought with harmonies and melodies in general, is that if it doesn't come right away then it's never going to come at all.