I feel about exercise the same way that I feel about a few other things: that there is nothing wrong with it if it is done in private by consenting adults.

Each instance of sexual harassment has to be judged on its merits. Facts, timing, motives, credibility: all must be considered before we make up our own minds what to believe.

People have writer's block not because they can't write, but because they despair of writing eloquently.

I think the very best thing about the internet is that I can read all the London papers every day if I want to.

A writer is always working with whatever she's managed to store in the brainpan or puzzle out about the world.

I believe that in a contest between the living and the almost living, the latter must, if necessary, give way to the will of the former.

an the president bring out the voters who were so enthusiastic about him in 2008 and seem a little disenchanted now? Can he bring out young people? Can he bring out Latinos? Can he bring out those white suburban moms?