Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less.
I was very short. Everybody else was two years older in my class, and I had curly hair and was teacher's pet.
There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.
I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.
The First Amendment only says 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.' It can disrespect all it wants.
Living in South Africa and periodically coming back to Kenya, my relationship with officialdom in Kenya was just insane.
The eternal and uneasy relationship between ballet and modern dance endures, but radically altered in tone and intensity.
Without a Prospero-Caliban relationship to balance the Prospero-Ariel one, 'The Tempest' loses much of its resonance.
And they like being able to turn on the television day in and day out to see someone that they know and they feel comfortable with and trust hopefully and respect even.
We're all bloggers and punks and rebels with cameras. There is absolutely no respect for career journalists anymore.
To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' reporting cred.
I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment.
News writing and sports writing have become synonymous. And it started with, you know, free agency, and now it's in the concussion debate.
The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom.
The problem with public school is not overcrowding in the classroom. The problem is not teacher unions. The problem is not underfunding or lack of computer equipment. The problem is your damn kids.
Sometimes I wake up in the morning and there's nothing doing, so I decide to make something happen by lunch.
Often, the disparities in the ways men and women are treated are subtle; there are not these clear barriers that you have to break down.
The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been, that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something.
Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
I'd like to see women get on to boards and run companies despite the fact that men occupy the citadels of power.
