Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community.

Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.

I hear Democrats say, 'The Affordable Care Act is the law,' as though we're supposed to genuflect at that sunburst of insight and move on. Well, the Fugitive Slave Act was the law, separate but equal was the law, lots of things are the law and then we change them.

[President George W.] Bush - never mind his well-crafted set speeches; listen to him as he leans on a lectern, chatting to an audience of carpenters - is completely comfortable being himself, a skill still eluding Gore in his 55th year.

The English language is not always the President's friend.

All I remember about my wedding day in 1967 is that the Cubs lost a double-header.