Matthew Tobin Anderson

I completely love music. I used to be the music critic at 'The Improper Bostonian.' It's just something I've always loved very deeply.

If we're going to ask our kids at age 18 to go off to war and die for their country, I don't see any problem with asking them at age 16 to think about what that might mean.

We love fantasy novels in which the characters think that they're peasants but turn out to be princes and kings.

Secretary Clinton has dramatically changed the face of U.S. foreign policy globally for the good. But I wish she had been unleashed more by the White House.

Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.

For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.