The one problem with the Internet for journalists who like doing long form is that any story that's going to involve 16 screens on the web page... that's asking a lot of people.

Kids are more nimble than wise.

Maybe as times get worse we get better. Our pain makes us feel other people's too; our fear lets us practice valor; we are tense, and tender as well. And among the things we can no longer afford are things we never really wanted anyway.

For the truly faithful, no miracle is necessary. For those who doubt, no miracle is sufficient.

Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.

Dwight Eisenhower was candid in private, but he was circumspect in public.

Illusions are the truths we live by until we know better.