You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can’t teach someone who writes columns to care.

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

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

The average parent may, for example, plant an artist or fertilize a ballet dancer and end up with a certified public accountant. We cannot train children along chicken wire to make them grow in the right direction. Tying them to stakes is frowned upon, even in Massachusetts.

Slowly we adjust, but only if we have to.

You can believe in women's rights without believing that every woman is right.

Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers.