The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again.

I was brought up by an Episcopalian father and Presbyterian mother in nondenominational Army chapels all over the world and never really had much religious experience.

We live in such a noisy world that we need to stop and just let things happen. Let it grow.

... Washington is, for one thing, the news capital of the world. And for another, it is a company town. Most of the interesting people in Washington either work for the government or write about it.

Silence is deeply important in all of our lives.

Europe is endearingly old fashioned in its secularism.

Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them.