high fashion has little to do with what women wear and a lot to do with what retailers mark down later.

I was a kid who sometimes got in trouble because I couldn't keep my mouth shut, which turned out to be an advantage when I became an opinion columnist.

Obama doesn't seem like a burger and a beer kind of guy. I have to say, I don't find that problematic at all.

My home was in a pleasant place outside of Philadelphia. But I really lived, truly lived, somewhere else. I lived within the covers of books.

There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger.

I do tend to be almost kind of Pollyanna-ish person.

The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage is that the two people are incompatible; that is, that one is male and the other female.