“Fear and hope are alike underneath.” — Richard Ford Quote

Fear and hope are alike underneath.

Happiness for me is getting to write about the most important things I know.

Writing is the only thing I've ever done with persistence, except for being married.

My job is to have empathy and curiosity for things that I've never done. Also, I'm a person whom people talk to.

I don't have a very logical and orderly mind.

As a survivor of Hurricane Katrina, I understood all too well the despair my colleagues - Republican and Democrat alike - were feeling as Hurricane Sandy ravaged their communities.

The days when the words 'Hollywood actor' framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem far-off and quaint: nearly everybody in politics - candidate, consultant, pundit, and Tea Party crowd extra alike - is an actor now, a shameless ham in a hoked-up reality series that never stops.

To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.

Marriage is a kind of prison for anyone who's miserable in it - men and women alike - and anyone who's suffered through difficult periods in marriage dreams of escape from it.