The 2008 election settled nothing, not even for a while. Our national politics are reflecting what appears to be going on geologically, on the bottom of the oceans and beneath the crust of the Earth: the tectonic plates are moving.

Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.

Democracy involves that old-fashioned thing called working it out.

All great political families have myths: stories they tell themselves about how history happened.

If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.

The death of marriage has been announced so often and would seem so normal, in a sense. So what's surprising is the sheer longevity and tenacity of this institution.

I'm looking forward to it. I'd like to be married.

Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot... I've seen all these marriages that failed. Those people are always hollering at each other. That doesn't work.