I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight.

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.

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.

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.

O snailClimb Mount FujiBut slowly, slowly!

There is something about the ritual of the race - putting on the number, lining up, being timed - that brings out the best in us.

To walk behind others on a road you are traveling together, to give precedence to others without envy - this is painful for an individual and painful for a nation.

Disruptors don't have to discover something new; they just have to discover a practical use for new discoveries.

I have always valued quiet, and the eternity of it that I face is no more dreadful than the eternity of quiet that preceded my birth.

I remember going to Europe and one makeup artist made me look pink, then she tried to correct it but turned me green! I had to learn how to do my own makeup.

The responsibilities of someone in a more free and open society are, again obviously, greater than those who may pay some cost for honesty and integrity.

Cars are necessary, but take a more humble one. Think of how many children die of hunger and dedicate the savings to them.

Dead, we become the lumber of the world, And to that mass of matter shall be swept Where things destroyed with things unborn are kept.

A society of children first is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.