A love story, at least a convincing one, requires three elements - the lover, the beloved, and the adventures they have together.

The thing about Republicans is that they don't care so much about respect, but they love fear, at least in others.

I have noticed before that there is a category of acquaintanceship that is not friendship or business or romance, but speculation, fascination.

Well, in fact everybody - everybody - in the entire nation has enough stuff in their life to write about that's interesting that they could write their autobiography. And in the end that's why I find people interesting.

As soon as you bring up money, I notice, conversation gets sociological, then political, then moral.

Even if my marriage is falling apart and my children are unhappy, there is still a part of me that says, 'God, this is fascinating!'

you know that the urge for revenge is a fact of marital life.