Moby Dick – that book is so amazing. I just realized that it starts with two characters meeting in bed that’s how my book begins, too, but I hadn’t noticed the parallel before, two characters forced to share a bed, reluctantly.

Maggie Smith is an amazing woman, and not as serious in real life.

You know, ‘The Golden Girls’ was a very unusual show to start on. I was young, and it was a show about old people, and it was a very traditional show, but it was also an amazing training ground for a joke-writer. It forced me to learn those skills.

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.

It is really quite amazing that all of the folks supporting privatization, from the president on down, keep invoking the name of my grandfather, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

I got to work with Jennifer Tilly, she was amazing. Such, such a smart actress.

It’s amazing. I can’t believe how brilliant the whole thing is – my daughter, Georgia, is just wonderful.

And Shanghai is amazing. I’m a fan of science fiction so when you’re there in the night with all the lights and all this modernity, it’s like a set in a movie.

It doesn’t take money to have style, it just takes a really good eye. Sometimes you can find amazing culinary antiques that will make it feel like an old French kitchen.