Are women necessary? Not with Ava around

A friendship between reporter and source lasts only until it is profitable for one to betray the other.

Women have become so obsessed with not withering, they've forgotten that there are infinite ways to be beautiful.

Americans want to be protected, but not at the cost of vitiating the values that make us Americans.

Eric Schmidt looks innocent enough, with his watercolor blue eyes and his tiny office full of toys and his Google campus stocked with volleyball courts and unlocked bikes and wheat-grass shots and cereal dispensers and Haribo Gummi Bears and heated toilet seats and herb gardens and parking lots with cords hanging to plug in electric cars.

I think the evangelicals think they're in a holy war now.

I find having a column a very difficult form of journalism. I'm not a natural like Tom Friedman and Anna Quindlen.