Yet isn't it all—all of it, every single episode and detail of the Clinton saga—exactly like that? And isn't some of it a little bit more serious? For Sen. Clinton, something is true if it validates t...

As often is the case with addictions, the fanciful notion of a gradual discontinuance only provided a comforting pretext for more sustained indulgence.

Today. the celebration is for the "victorious", not the meritorious. The depiction to the youth, is that one can be victorious without merit, and that merit is less notable than victory. The result, i...

Don't waste today by talking about yesterday until it's finally tomorrow.

Allow yourself to be an anchor and anchored by others.

We must clean the lens of our hearts to see the state of our souls. However, too often the former is too dirty to even know that the latter exists.

Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.

To respect a mystery is to make way for the answer.

Since Jimmy Carter, religious fundamentalists play a major role in elections. He was the first president who made a point of exhibiting himself as a born again Christian. That sparked a little light i...

We make war that we may live in peace.

Seeing the name in a headline last week—a headline about a life that had involved real achievement—I felt a mouse stirring in the attic of my memory. Eventually, I was able to recall how the two Hill...

He banged on the side of the carriage. Thomas! We must away at once to the nearest brothel. I seek scandal and low companionship.

Film is one if three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.

Fame and glory belong to those who are the first to achieve things, not those who only think about it or do it after it's been done.

Yes, fascism is a horrible storm, but the storm prepares his own death by receiving fatal wounds while hitting the things he is destroying!

[I]f you think that American imperialism and its globalised, capitalist form is the most dangerous thing in the world, that means you don't think the Islamic Republic of Iran or North Korea or the Tal...

I have come to the conclusion that just as the Japanese live to work, Asians live to eat.

Too many adults wish to 'protect' teenagers when they should be stimulating them to read of life as it is lived.

People are shaped by their emotions. That which profoundly affects them has a place in their hearts.

A writer can do without food for a few hours, but not without the sight of books.