American Idol, I love. I think it's a passing fancy but not passing so soon.

I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.

I don't think it's about entertainment. I think it's about being ourselves.

Part of this new world of completely improvisational terrorism is that there were codes of war that disintegrated in the face of terrorism.

Whenever you are blue or lonely or stricken by some humiliating thing you did, the cure and the hope is in caring about other people.

If there were a rehab for curiosity; I'd be in it.

A good marriage is a contest of generosity.