I think there are some stories that need to be told by a specific person as opposed to in the third person..

My sister is a public school teacher. She makes far far less money than I do, and gets almost no public attention for her work. Yet I believe what sh….

So I do think sometimes the political mechanism is completely disconnected from the people. However, what I will say is that history tells us that wh….

When men do the dishes, it's called helping. When women do the dishes, it is called life..

All of the qualities that you need to be a good opinion columnist tend to be qualities that aren't valued in women..

The problem with freedom is that you just can't go back. Once people see what it means to be free people, you can't go back. So they're going to keep….

[In the aftermath of death] Small talk feels too small, big talk too enormous..

the separation of church and state grew out of a desire, not so much to protect government from religion, but to protect religion from government..

I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person..

It would take a helluva man to replace no man at all..

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves..

Ever since the Evil Empire turned out to be a collection of third-world countries, Americans aligned on the far right have tried to cast gay men and ….

I haven't seen so much tippy-toeing around since the last time I went to the ballet. When members of the arts community were askedthis week about one….

If men got pregnant, there would be safe, reliable methods of birth control. They'd be cheap, too..

Well, I'd like to think I am, and I'd also like to think that we're all having a lot more fun getting older than we pretend. It was interesting to me….

Kids and violent TV, violent TV and violence, violence and kids. The only people missing from this discussion are the parents. Where are we? Gone. Ab….

I like to say that my mother had a very ordinary life. From the outside it didn't look like there was anything particularly special or wonderful abou….

The 1992 US Olympic basketball team is the best sports team ever, the equivalent of rounding up the greatest American writers of the last century or ….

I feel about exercise the same way that I feel about a few other things: that there is nothing wrong with it if it is done in private by consenting a….

I think I'm like most novelists in that my books have gotten farther and farther away from autobiography the longer I've been writing them..

However, there will be a Republican Party platform that will coalesce around their convention. Unless I miss my guess, it will be considerably more c….