Manners are the ability to put someone else at their ease...by turning any answer into another question.

Wearing hats has become like fine art for me.

To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' reporting cred

Manners are the ability to put someone else at their ease...by turning any answer into another question.

Bill Clinton, talking about the need to financially empower wives and mothers in regressive countries, once remarked that women have 'the responsibility gene.' No one has that gene more markedly than his wife.

I just simply write as it moves me. I may be writing about a book or a movie or a person, places where I've been or something I've done. Or politics. It's going to what's on my mind at the moment

I just wanted to have fun for myself - I felt I had a lot to say, and I realized that I missed having a magazine as a place to express my ideas. The Times column is a place for me to unload those perceptions