I don't know Laura Bush. But she seems to be calm, and she has a sparkle in her eye, which is good. But I don't know that she's ever had a real job - I mean, since she's been grown up.

I fight, and have fought, for political freedom, for justice and for fairness and freedom of speech.

In a democracy, the one thing that cannot be done is to destroy its trust, its hope, its idealism.

I was always impressed by Betty Ford and what she went through and how full of integrity she was, and how brave. I think Mrs. Reagan was a role model of my mother's generation, intelligent, very supportive of her husband. I am very different from my mom, but I admired her devotion.

I first considered writing 'New York' in 1991. I'd been in the city for a decade, was married to an American wife, and sending my children to New York schools. I was even on the board of a coop building. But I wasn't sure how to organize such complex material, and for many years I put the project aside.

My marriage to Chasten has made me a better man.

Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.

It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.