When I think of grass I think of something to walk on, pot as something to put a plant in.

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.

Most important, of course, we all care intensely for the narrative of our own life and very much want it to be a good story, with a decent hero.

Wonder isn't about finding answers

We learn to appreciate what we achieve, no matter how small the achievement, because we do it ourselves. - Midge Rylander in Eighteen Months To Live

I've been waiting for sleep to offer up the day with both hands.

I have always thought that if we began for one moment to say what we thought, society would collapse.

Life is like waiting in line at the grocery store. You wait, you slowly move forward, you pay the price, then you exit unsatisfied and broke.

I have learned more and more to enjoy my body when I have a few extra pounds on, just being more voluptuous.

Today is the best day to accomplish something.

Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.

You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.