Give guilt - the gift that lasts forever.

When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.

To choose Norm Coleman over Walter Mondale is like going to a great steakhouse and ordering the tuna sandwich.

Years ago, manhood was an opportunity for achievement, and now it is a problem to be overcome.

I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy.

A person does feel sheepish picking on journalists, a class already so richly despised that if a planeload of them crashed in flames, most people would smile from pure reflex.

It's better to be burnished with use than rusty with principle.