I love Washington, but it is a self-important town.

For me, books have been a life-long resource-to learning, laughter, solace, excitement, inspiration. At your library, the world awaits you, free for the asking.

No news at 4:30 a.m. is good.

The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.

I was keenly aware that I had a unique opportunity, a front row seat, on an unfolding story and nobody else was going to see it from quite the vantage point that I saw it.

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.