I did not support Operation Desert Fox.

I was thrilled to work opposite Carl Reiner and Robert De Niro. Mr. Reiner was very chatty and delightful, but I learned that if you want Robert De Niro to like you, don't speak at all, and he'll be friendly to you.

Sage advice? If you're drunk, stay away from the phone. You can't get the answering machine message back.

Listening to your tape, I was reminded of this poem. It has the central question: Is it harder to count on someone or to know that you're being the one counted upon? Anyway, there's this part that goes: if equal affection cannot be, then let the more loving one be me. Have you ever read that one? It's one of my favorites.

I don't really have funny things to say about politics. I wish I did, but I don't.

I don't know that I would need to be famous as a Middle East policy expert to see that unilateral imperialism is bad policy.

I guess when your heart gets broken, you sort of start to see the cracks in everything.