As any editor will tell you, startling newsroom revelations are generally met with queries about where the information came from and how the reporter got it. Seriously startling revelations are followed by the vetting of libel lawyers.

Stationery is addictive. I get mine made in Paris at Benetton, and writing on it gives me a strange thrill.

As a father of five, I sometimes feel I've spent a lifetime watching Disney musicals.

Conservatives define themselves more by their hatred of liberals than anything else, and, conversely, liberals by their distaste for conservatives.

Whatever age we are is the age we’ve always been.

People think they have to be ambitious. But at a certain age, all you want is to be around nice, decent people.

Water-boarding can result in damage to the lungs and the brain, as well as long-term psychological trauma.