We live in such a noisy world that we need to stop and just let things happen. Let it grow.

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.

You don't need to move mountains when love will fly you over.

Isolation is a dream killer.

Are you, monsieur, a man of your word?" "It really depends upon the word," Magnus said. "There are so many wonderful words.

In a modern society people can live without hope only when kept dazed and out of breath by incessant hustling.

For an individual fully to play himself, rather than to sound like someone else, is possibly the hardest thing to do.

Faith in to-morrow, instead of Christ, is Satan's nurse for man's perdition.

Shane Warne's idea of a balanced diet is a cheeseburger in each hand

Either things grow and change or they die.

No one likes to be criticized.

He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.