The feeling is that Fidel Castro's much bigger than he actually is.

Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people.

Mr. President, Mrs. Obama. There is a photograph of you [hugging] that went viral, became the most shared photograph in the history of Twitter. How do you keep the fire going?

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

I happen to disagree with the well-entrenched theory that the art of conversation is merely the art of being a good listener. Such advice invites people to be cynical with one another and full of fake; when a conversation becomes a monologue, poked along with tiny cattle-prod questions, it isn't a conversation any more.

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.

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