When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you think you're in control, but you're not.

I didn't have a very religious family.

Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.

I don't know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.

I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: 'On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.