The best part about being friends with your parents is that no matter what you do, they have to keep loving you.

I read every biography [of Jackie Kennedy] I could get my hands on.

And then there is Cate Blanchett. She is different all the time.

I grew up in the classic American-Jewish suburbia, which has a whole different sense of what it means to be Jewish than anywhere else in the world.

Guys have guy/girl relationships so that they can have their own guy thing plus the sensitive thing with the girl.

The good news is we have the technology and the tools to alleviate poverty on a global scale. All that is standing in our way is education and will.

Why are they making rules that say my lover can stay in the United States if they're foreign or share my health care benefits because I'm straight - but if you're gay, you can't have that?