I haven't had to struggle very much. I haven't paid my dues. I think I have been lucky.

Bridget Jones is part of literary lore now and actually to be a part of it is enormously flattering.

Maybe it's shallow of me to have a wife that's so beautiful, but it makes things easier. To me she's the most beautiful woman in the world.

I'll be your friend so long as you're not crap

I was gearing up for it. I took some singing lessons. And I opened my mouth, and Atom promptly said, 'That's not going to happen. We love your voice, but maybe we could use some of your English wit.' He had doubts about it from way back. For starters, we weren't going to be doing the Italian-American crooning thing.

Sometimes to think about why some institutions are stable, it's interesting to go one generation back and look at the author of that stability.

The failure so far of the governments of so many of the worlds most powerful countries in the face of such egregious unfairness ... to make the slightest progress on the issue of fair trade is hard to explain.