When we stop and reflect things begin to happen and sometimes we get the essence of God when we are just quiet.

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.

It's more interesting to be out in the world. than to see it reflected in the mirror.

Stop crying. You're giving archangels everywhere a bad name.

The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything.

I think that the proposed constitution is one of the European legal documents with the strongest social dimension I have seen since I began following European issues.

I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

God is on the side of the big battalions.

The Indians have such strong traditions and aesthetics, and the people are beautiful, as are their goods.

There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.

There are two kinds of speeches: the Mother Hubbard speech, which, like the garment, covers everything but touches nothing, and the French bathing suit speech, which covers only the essential points.