When I need to work up my nerve to write a tough column, I try to think of myself as Emma Peel in a black leather catsuit.

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

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

Tweetin' ain't cheatin'.

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

We are riveted by the soap operas of public lives. We admire the famous most for what makes them infamous: it reassures us that they are not better and no happier than all the people with their noses pressed hard against the glass.

[On journalists:] We are a noisy, imperfect lot, struggling to scribble what has been called the first draft of history.