I devised the Bert Lance Toe Test then - you go out on the front porch of the house, turn 'The Washington Post' over with your big toe, and if your name's above the fold, you know you're not going to have a good day.

Don't do or say things you would not like to see on the front page of The Washington Post.

I tell the kids that, even in a childhood marked by despair and deprivation, I knew that no matter what happened, I still had my family, or at least the remnants of a family ripped apart by divorce and then glued back together in various odd arrangements through a series of ill- advised remarriages. It was good to know I had a solid foundation.

Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post.

Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post.'

This morning in the Washington Post there was a statistic about how 85% of Americans are Christians.