Slowly we adjust, but only if we have to.

Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed.

Today, much of journalism and politics are in a kind of collusion to oversimplify and personalize issues. No room for ambivalence. Plenty of room for the personal attack.

I suppose we make kids the repository of our highest ideals because children are powerless. In that way we can have ideals and ignore them at the same time.

We want our children to fit in and to stand out. We rarely address the conflict between these goals.

What he labels sexual, she labels harassment.

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.