Women will have all the power one day anyway. It's just a matter of time.

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.

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.

Last week I did a piece for Style on advice to Laura Bush about how to help her husband. This week it's religion. It just depends on what I find interesting at the moment.

No matter how many compromises were made along the way, no matter what happens in the future, a book is a thing to behold.

I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.

I've always been my own person. Everything I've ever done in my life I did the hard way.

Nobody stopped believing that other people were more guilty than they were. Why do people have so much trouble seeing their own faults but such an easy time seeing everyone else's?

Instead, we were given a publication called the Weekly Reader, which was like a newspaper for four-foot illiterates.

Don't do what you're taught to do, do what you love to do.

Three men, together riding, Can win new worlds at their will; Resolute, neer dividing, Lead, and be victors still. Three can laugh and doom a king, Three can make the planets sing.

Identity for me is something that has to be played with and explored, and not become complacent about or uninterested in.

I want to know my whole story works before I start working.

Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him.