While we pay lip service to the virtues of reading, the truth is that there is still in our culture something that suspects those who read too much, whatever reading too much means, of being lazy, aimless dreamers, people who need to grow up and come outside to where real life is, who think themselves superior in their separateness.

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.

The Church does an enormous amount of good, and it carries one of the most valuable messages imaginable - that you should love your neighbor as yourself, and that if you have two coats you should give one to the man who has none.

When hot dogs like Mr. D'Amato or the Republican apologist Roger Ailes say that Whitewater is worse than Watergate, it's because they're suffering from a disease. It's called bull-imia, and it's the regurgitation of patent hyperbole.

I was doing the family grocery shopping accompanied by two children, an event I hope to see included in the Olympics in the near future.

When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is told to leave, what message do we send about the roles of women?

We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind.