One thing House needs Wilson for is vanity. He needs someone to laugh at his jokes.

Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be.

Believe it or not, perhaps I don't show it much, or well, but I think I like people.

One great benefit of not being on TV every week is that people will be a lot less interested in what I have in my supermarket basket. I could even un-tint my car windows - or at least opt for a lighter shade.

To tell you the truth, the older I get, the less I know. I keep meeting people, both older and younger, who seem to have accrued so much more knowledge or expertise or certainty about who they are and the jobs they do. I just marvel at it.

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what.

It is the middle of December now, and we are about to travel to Switzerland - where we plan to ski a little, relax a little, and shoot a Dutch politician a little.