Insane people are always sure they're just fine. It's only the sane people who are willing to admit they're crazy.

I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like... magic.

Washington is a city of locker-room boys, and all the old, outmoded notions apply: men and women are ushered to separate rooms after dinner, sex is dirty, and they are still serving onion-soup dip.

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

We weren't meant to have futures, we were meant to marry them. We weren't meant to have politics, or careers that mattered, or opinions, or lives; we were meant to marry them. If you wanted to be an architect, you married an architect.

I am not a new journalist, whatever that is. I just sit here at the typewriter and bang away at the old forms.

Black makes your life so much simpler. Everything matches black, especially black.