We have become a nation of Kodachrome, Nikon, Instamatic addicts. But we haven't yet developed a clear idea of the ethics of picture-taking. ... Where do we get the right to bring other people home in a canister? Where did we lose the right to control our image?

Maybe at 20 you can write well, but I don't think you could do what I do. Some things have to happen to you first.

Today Washington is our Hollywood, the Senate our Warner Bros., the White House our Beverly Hills. People who never read a line of a movie magazine deal with the lives of leaders as if they were Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.

instant opinion is an oxymoron. You don't get real opinions in an instant. You get reactions.

Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.

Welfare is ... the victim of national compassion fatigue.

Taboos are falling across our culture like dominoes. What was unspeakable yesterday dominates talk shows today.