One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.

The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.

Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.

I didn't have a lot of great jobs. I was a third-shift legal proofreader. I did office work for people where a friend might say, 'Hey, we need someone,' in his office, and then I will have a month or two weeks or whatever somewhere. I was - I taught fiction workshops.

We love to start from a real place, whether it's us or our friends or working on a story from a writer's friend.

A friendship between Germany and Israel didn't always seem natural.

People are really happier with friends than they are with their families or their spouse or their child.