I know it's very 'old media' of me to admit this, but I am often unnerved by the lack of civility on the Web.
When you kill 500,000 children in order to impose your will on other countries, then you shouldn't be surprised when somebody responds in kind.
The term 'human rights defender,' incidentally, isn't something I or my attorneys came up with. Personally, I find it a little embarrassing.
You don't really have to say much when your headline is 'Drag Queen Robs Burger King.' Sometimes comedy writes itself.
High on the list of things I've been meaning to do since I moved to New York in 2004 is going up to a Columbia University football game.
Size has nothing to do with literature. All legs are long enough to touch the ground, and all books are big enough to fill their covers.
I think of myself as writing realist American fiction. 'Cynical but hopeful' wouldn't be the worst thing I've ever been called.
Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.
Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?
When Loughner himself speaks and we find out his real influences are Spiderman, 'Gnome Chomsky,' Taylor Swift, and Dr. Bronner, then what?
@bobbybaird i'm a writer, so are you. we try to compose our thoughts and words for effect as well as sense. vain of us? a bit.
Prior to my election, young Cherokee girls would never have thought that they might grow up and become chief.
Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward.
America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking.
So after being with somebody for any number of days like that, you can't help but feel for them. You can't help them, but you certainly can root for them.
To so many people, the Lord is in danger of being no more than a patron saint of our systematic theology instead of the Christ Who is our life.
Make sure it is God's trumpet you are blowing- if it is only yours it won't wake the dead, it will simply disturb the neighbours.
Being a mother must be the saddest yet the most hopeful thing in the world, falling into a love that, once started, would never end.
A well-made salad must have a certain uniformity; it should make perfect sense for those ingredients to share a bowl.
Tossing doughnuts, fritters or fried dumplings in fennel sugar adds grown-up complexity without diminishing the indulgence factor.
Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.
