No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.

Homogeneity is much to be admired - in milk, for instance - but not for parties.

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

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

To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.

Large cocktail parties are an infamous technique for ridding yourself of social obligations to people you usually don't know well or like much, which is such an unpromising beginning that I've rarely known one that recovered and turned into a great party.

It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.