We live in an age that is driven by information. Technological breakthroughs... are changing the face of war and how we prepare for war.

Sometimes the steepest, most challenging and most rewarding paths in life are not meant to be walked, but crawled.

I mean, you can't walk down the aisle in Westminster Abbey in a strapless dress, it just won't happen - it has to suit the grandeur of that aisle, it's enormous.

If you read all your history books, there are no women in them.

And all winds go sighing For sweet things dying.

I would be the worst president in the history of the United States. Unless you want the apocalypse to happen really soon then yes, I'll run for president.

My father was a pedant and a bully who cared about nobody, and I was not to see him until I was eighteen.

Hey, don't knock Judy Blume. Without her, my younger self would never have been able to decode the random acts of madness perpetrated by the fascinating creature known as the teenage girl.

Follow Through is elegant, sure footed, smart—a nest of sticks that won’t stay sticks—a nest of sticks that snowballs—scary and marvelous.

It was Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda who attacked the U.S. on September 11, 2001, not Saddam Hussein and Iraq.

So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road.