Barack Obama and Michelle Obama don't go to Georgetown. The Clintons did, indeed. And the Clintons go out and about in Washington now. They go to neighborhood restaurants.

I tend to place my own value in spirituality rather than religiosity.

I admired Eugene McCarthy’s courage and although I left his Senate staff after four years to accept a job as the researcher on the editorial page of the Washington Post, I remained an admirer.

A hero is someone we can admire without apology.

While many applauded Oprah for opening her heart to young girls in South Africa, some criticized her for not investing in the youth of America.

My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as 'an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.

It would be morally reprehensible not to tell the truth... Everything I have written has stood the test of time.