The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it's not work for me.

We permit bad taste in this country. In fact, we even encourage it - and reward it in all manner of ways.

He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored.

I have no respect for the right-to-life position, though I have every respect for an individual who says, "I could never have that procedure, I could never see a film or read a book about that procedure." It doesn't bother me if people feel that way.

My life is a reading list.

It happens to many teenagers-that moment when you feel full of resentment or distrust for those adults you once loved unquestioningly.

I grew up in a family where, through my teenage years, I was expected to go to church on Sunday. It wasn't terribly painful.