Almost all political campaigns involve falsity and playacting.

Al Gore's performances could be a case study in abnormal-psychology classes.

Bill Clinton was a liberal who could appeal to conservative-leaning Bubba voters.

Comedians still make fun of Bill's out-of-control appetites, but with Hillary, the mockery is about how she lets nothing be out of control.

There's no wobble in Bush. If anything, the opposite. Right after hello, the next words out of his mouth are: I've never been more convinced that the decisions I made are the right decisions.

In person, George W. Bush is extremely forceful. He has a restless energy when he sits in a chair, and nearly leaps out of it when making certain points.

Message to Obama: Fighting the Clinton machine won't be as easy as picking up favorable press clips.

Clinton's fakery was so deft and deeply ingrained that it was impossible to tell where it ended and the real Bill Clinton began. This constituted a kind of political genius.

It is Hillary's lot in life not to be able to fake it well...

Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists.

You have to check out 'March of the Penguins'. Penguins are the really ideal example of monogamy.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

In a world in which everyone cheats, it's the honest man who passes for a charlatan.

Whether it's eight o'clock in the morning or eight o'clock at night, I always try to greet others before they have a chance to speak to me.

A lot of local food is very tasty. I'm very happy to eat it. I just don't think it's the same thing as saving the world.

I quit my job in the bank when I was 19. I took a chance. I went to Milan to study opera and singing. My father really supported me economically.

Dancing is like making love. It has to be a harmony; it has to be about two bodies. When one is like, "I am the good one," it doesn't work.

He measures our lives by how we love.

In a world of commoditized knowledge, the returns go to the companies who can produce non-standard knowledge.

[Sometimes I] put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters.

Cars are changing and so is the way we communicate about them.