The permanent power brokers of this city are the columnists.

It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work.

It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work.

When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.

Washington is the only city in the world where you can go to a black-tie dinner and there at the foot of the table is a television set up to catch a press conference.

If you could actually get rid of your special power which alienates you from the rest of the world, would you do it? It's a metaphor very much about intolerance, I think, fear of anything that's different. If you could choose to not be Jewish or not be gay or not be African-American. Life maybe is not as easy if you're a minority. Would you take the opportunity to change that if you could?