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

We're newspaper junkies; I can't imagine life without a newspaper..

Social climbing and power climbing -- the two are often synonymous -- are what make Washington run. ... If there are more than two people together, i….

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

I do think that many religious people have enormous doubts..

I first came on the scene during the Johnson years and that crowd was out all the time enjoying themselves. Nixon wasn't particularly social but a lo….

Women will have all the power one day anyway. It's just a matter of time..

Most of the people who live in Washington come from other places and you can learn something from them..

Even Colin Powell who was everywhere before he became secretary of state, just stopped going out. I think part of it was he didn't want to be viewed ….

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 t….

That's what I've decided I am. A seeker of wisdom and truth..

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 un….

Everyone gets meaning in different ways..

Funny you mention my dinner parties when I have just suggested that inviting close friends over to share a meal with candlelight and wine at your tab….

... 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 ….

It is only in the fundamentalist religions that women are relegated to second class. Radical Evangelicals, Muslims, and Jews all have the same view o….

The first term of the Clinton administration was very jolly. Everybody was running around meeting people and of course, in the second term, everyone ….

The primary motivation in the world of television is fear. People are scared to death. Ambition and enthusiasm and interest and the desire to excel a….

Last week I did a piece for Style on advice to Laura Bush about how to help her husband. This week it's religion. It just depends on what I find inte….

The important is not what you believe but how you behave..

Every poll shows that most journalists are Democrats..