The image of the journalist as wallflower at the orgy has been replaced by the journalist as the life of the party.

Maintenance is what you have to do just so you can walk out the door knowing that if you go to the market and bump into a guy who once rejected you, you won't have to hide behind a stack of canned food. I don't mean to be too literal about this.

That's another thing about being a certain age that I've noticed: I try as much as possible not to look in the mirror.

Working as a journalist is exactly like being a wallflower at an orgy.

Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. ... Reading is bliss.

The Washington press corps thinks that Julie Nixon Eisenhower is the only member of the Nixon Administration who has any credibility--and, as one journalist put it, this is not to say that anyone believes what she is saying but simply that people believe she believes what she is sayingit is almost as if she is the only woman in America over the age of twenty who still thinks her father is exactly what she thought he was when she was six.

That's your problem! You don't want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie.