I have never written anything sexually explicit.

Expecting to be able to get rid of the competitive drive, first of all, flies in the face of human nature - and little girls certainly have this drive, as much as little boys do, or at least the little girls I have observed in my immediate family have it.

You know, my mother had a rule which was people are just people.

Stress isn't caused by bad times, but by working where you feel your talents are being underappreciated.

Well, my father's people were Mormon, and had immigrated not long after Brigham Young had settled Utah.

E is for the EDUCATORS, the women who taught us well.

I soon discovered, after I became chairman of the NEH, that, for a number of academics, the truth was not merely irrelevant - it no longer existed.