I wondered if that was what I was doing myself – caring so much about something that was so long gone that I was only propping it up.

The curve of my waist in a tight fitting summer dress can really make me new friends.

Right now, it's hard to imagine that it is raining anywhere in the world.

It was not enough to come and listen to a great sermon or message every Sunday morning and be confined to those four walls and those four corners. You had to get out and do something.

Perhaps she saw before her a lifetime of walking on the ruined earth and chose instead a single moment in the air.

So you see, when war comes to one’s village, one’s doorstep, it isn’t tragic and impersonal any longer. It is just an excuse to vomit private hatred. That is why I am not a great patriot.

This inhuman world has to become more humane. But how?

And it's the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.

Really life is about narcissism; no one is ever thinking about you much. You always think people are thinking about you way more than they are.

Japan's inexplicable lack of response to even consider a move to re-open their market to U.S. beef will sorely tempt economic trade action against Japan.

I don't profess to know how to balance the positive and the negative media attention. It's a gamble every time you put yourself out there, and, certainly, I'm always readjusting to it.

We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.