Where there's smoke, there's bound to be mirrors.

That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.

Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.

I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.

Freedom should always be discussed within the context of responsibility.

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.

I don't think so, but it's always in the back of my mind that many of the soldiers being wounded and killed in Iraq are about the same age as my kids. My godson is going over soon, so the war's about to get personal for me.