Journalism, spooked by rumors of its own obsolescence, has stopped believing in itself. Groans of doom alternate with panicked happy talk.

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

Zingers should glow with intelligence as well as drip with contempt.

The insane have achieved political respectability while the sane act too good for it all. The irrational celebrate while the rational act bored and above-it-all.

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

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

As a woman, I know that if I write about another woman, it will be perceived as a catfight.