"My wife and I just prefer Seattle. It's a beautiful city. Great setting. You open your front door in the morning and the air smells like pine and the sea, as opposed to bus exhaust."

"He had written my mother once that he wanted her to be the first thing he saw every morning and the last thing he ever saw. And that's how it turned out."

"The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book."

"We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved."

"I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling."

"In L.A., I don't really want to go out because traffic sucks so bad. I'm sorry, I'm not going to spend five hours a day in my car, so you have to choose where you live very carefully."

"Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible."

"Think 100 times before you take a decision, But once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man."