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

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

It is men's worst fear, personally and professionally, that women will pin the sin on them.

Everybody is continuously connected to everybody else on Twitter, on Facebook, on Instagram, on Reddit, e-mailing, texting, faster and faster, with the flood of information jeopardizing meaning. Everybody's talking at once in a hypnotic, hyper din: the cocktail party from hell.

Reagan didn't socialize with the press. He spent his evenings with Nancy, watching TV with dinner trays. But he knew that to transcend, you can't condescend.

Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.

As blue chips turn into penny stocks, Wall Street seems less like a symbol of America's macho capitalism and more like that famous Jane Austen character Mrs. Bennet, a flibbertigibbet always anxious about getting richer and her 'poor nerves.'