I have been in the witness protection program for the last three weeks. I campaigned for Ralph Nader. I'm now living as a woman in Mississippi.

The biggest threat to this country isn't the Russians. It's our own inability to make democracy or capitalism work.

Miss Child is never bashful with butter.

Recognition should come to the reporter who uncovers public cheating or proves a convicted man innocent.

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

Science may have come a long way, but as far as religion is concerned, we are first cousins to the !Kung tribesmen of the Kalahari Desert. Except for the garments, their deep religious trances might just as well be happening at a revival meeting or in the congregation of a fundamentalist TV preacher.... As we move further from the life of ignorance and superstition in which religion has its roots, we seem to need it more and more.... Why has religion become a force just when we'd have thought it would be losing ground to secularism?

In reality, the most important things happen when you don't look for them.