So many of the problems we have today are because people don't respect the beliefs of others.

I now consider myself quite religious and spiritual although that sounds like a terrible cliche.

Social climbing and power climbing -- the two are often synonymous -- are what make Washington run. ... If there are more than two people together, if there are three, one of them is climbing.

I do think that many religious people have enormous doubts.

Newspapers don't write enough about serious religious issues.

I think that obviously humans find it very difficult to believe that there is no there there. So they created these stories and myths to give their lives some meaning.

I never know what I'm going to do for the Post next. Two weeks ago I had a piece on Homeland Security. This is one of my pig ongoing projects. How unprepared we are for a terrorist attack.