We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of lonliness. We need each other and we need to get away from each other. We need proximity and distance, conversation and silence. We almost always get more of each than we want at any one time.

The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books - how not to eat what you've just learned how to cook.

I've learned... That the easiest way for me to grow as a person is to surround myself with people smarter than I am.

It's not so much that I write well, I just don't write badly very often and that passes for good on television.

We should change our attitude toward the United Nations. There has to be some power in the world superior to our own. We should not have attacked Iraq without the okay of the United Nations. Now we have to live with that mistake. We're living with it, and too many of our guys are dying with it.

If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.

Death is a distant rumor to the young.