Military guys are rarely as smart as they think they are, and they've never gotten over the fact that civilians run the military.

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

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

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

Women are affected by lunar tides only once a month; men have raging hormones every day.

It takes a lot of adrenaline and fear to make me actually write.

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