We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie, and rage.

I think the editorial page of the Washington Post is the best in the country. I think the editorials - considering it's a liberal town, liberal constituency and from the liberal tradition - I think it's the best editorial page around. It's quite balanced.

There is a mystique about psychiatry that people think that you have some kind of a magical lens, you know, Superman's X-ray vision into the soul. One of the reasons I left psychiatry is that I didn't believe that.

The 2014 election has given the GOP the rare opportunity to retroactively redeem its brand. The conventional perception, incessantly repeated by Democrats and the media, is that Washington dysfunction is the work of the Party of No. Expose the real agent of do-nothing. Show that, when Harry Reid can no longer consign House-passed legislation to oblivion, Congress can actually work.

Great leaders are willing to retire unloved and unpopular as the price for great exertion.

I envy people who write easily. I enjoy the process, but it's not easeful for me.

Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict and war.