I might wear a dinner jacket once a year to our Oscar party - that's a big thing - but I don't go to parties. I'm social but I'm not a socialite person.

Stationery is addictive. I get mine made in Paris at Benetton, and writing on it gives me a strange thrill.

I walk down the street and people don't go, 'my God, there he is.' I lead as normal a life as you can lead in New York City.

Arrogance, ignorance, and incompetence. Not a pretty cocktail of personality traits in the best of situations. No sirree. Not a pretty cocktail in an office-mate and not a pretty cocktail in a head of state. In fact, in a leader, it's a lethal cocktail.

It could safely be said that Iraqis are dying at a faster clip since the American-led invasion and occupation than they did during the last decade of Saddam Hussein's rule.

History is nothing if not an epic tale of missed opportunities.

Every man in the back of their minds would like to own a bar or a racehorse.