We can't destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.

being Cassandra is a principled choice when there is cause for alarm.

Crisis can be an addiction as powerful as any other.

What would we do without irony? Check out your own daily reliance on it, the foul-weather friend who's there for you when nothing else is.

Listen - life is really going on, right now, around us. Do you see it? Sometimes I lose it but if I sit still and listen, it comes back, and then I think, How funny, this is what being alive is.

No matter how expected, death is always the ultimate surprise.

Metaphor is the energy charge that leaps between images, revealing their connections.