So many more cycles of elation of the first kiss, and devastation when it's over.

Into every sunny life a little rain must fall.

They have no idea what a bottomless pit of misery I am.

I'd really like to write a book about Timothy McVeigh, but it would only work if he cooperated.

Judaism will be enmeshed in pride and shame for as long as it endures. But to endure as a country, Israel must shun both these tendencies.

But just as a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing, a little bit of energy, in the hands of someone hell-bent on suicide, is a very dangerous thing.

I'll see Naomi Wolf on television periodically, I have nothing against her and what she says, but I'll feel that she's a politician, like she's got an agenda to get across and that she doesn't always say what's really true or exactly what she feels.