I love having a president who I think is smarter than I am.

Grief remains one of the few things that has the power to silence us.

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.

People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.

When I'm falling, my girlfriends are my soft landing.

Every reader, I suspect, has a book like this somewhere in his or her past, a book that seemed to hold within it, at that moment, all the mysteries of the universe.

My sister is a public school teacher. She makes far far less money than I do, and gets almost no public attention for her work. Yet I believe what she does is infinitely more important and more difficult than what I do.