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" I might wear a dinner jacket once a year to our Oscar party - that's a big thing - but I don't go to parties. I'm social but I'm not a socialite person. "

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" I walk down the street and people don't go, 'My God, there he is.' I lead as normal a life as you can lead in New York City. "

" I think being Canadian helps you as a journalist in America, because you're sort of on the outside watching this big party going on, and you're sort of taking mental notes as it goes on. I think if you're in the party the whole time, you don't notice it as much. And I think Canadians are very good observers of American culture. "

" Every man in the back of their minds would like to own a bar or a racehorse. "

" Water-boarding can result in damage to the lungs and the brain, as well as long-term psychological trauma. "

" Television offers a range and scope, and a degree of creativity and daring, that the bottom-line, global-audience-obsessed, brand-driven movie industry just can't compete with. "

" The fact is that movie stars are as insecure as the rest of us - if not more so. Many live in a luxurious bubble in which their best friends are their trainer, their hairdresser, their publicist, and their Kabbalah instructor. "

" People think they have to be ambitious. But at a certain age, all you want is to be around nice, decent people. "

" I always thought eating what you wanted was one of those aspects of adulthood to be looked forward to when you were a child. "

" Issues such as transparency often boil down to which side of - pick a number - 40 you're on. Under 40, and transparency is generally considered a good thing for society. Over 40, and one generally chooses privacy over transparency. On every side of this issue, hypocrisy abounds. "

" My hunch is that pop culture began to stagnate the moment Americans started to love the past more than they did the future. "

" Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi looks in the mirror and sees a playboy of the old school. And men such as Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Charlie Sheen no doubt look at Berlusconi and think, 'Role model!' Women, of course, know otherwise. They see him as an aging, pathetic buffoon. "

" There are similarities between being an editor and a tailor. Tailors have a vast supply of fabrics, buttons and thread at their disposal and put it together to make a whole. That's what an editor does - looks at society at a given time and pulls together the interesting aspects into a single issue each month. "

" As any editor will tell you, startling newsroom revelations are generally met with queries about where the information came from and how the reporter got it. Seriously startling revelations are followed by the vetting of libel lawyers. "

" I have always thought you could take the measure of a man by his sports manners - that is to say, the way in which he conducts himself on the playing field, or even over a game of chess or cards. "

Measure Of A Man

" I really don't despise anyone. But there is a list of a half dozen people I would prefer never to hear from or see again. "

" Satire works best when it hews close to the line between the outlandish and the possible - and as that line continues to grow thinner, the satirist's task becomes ever more difficult. "

" Life is all about seating and lighting. "

" It could fairly be said that America, during the Bush years, has entered an Age of Denial - arguably the first stage of a nation's decline. "

" To a young kid growing up in Canada, America seemed to be crazy about the future; dazzled by it. "

" There's probably a half-dozen movie actors I really like. But a lot of them just aren't that interesting. "

" Television has the obvious benefits of regularity and intimacy. "

" To discuss a Martin Amis book, you must first discuss the orchestrated release of a Martin Amis book. In London, which rightly prides itself on the vibrancy of its literary cottage industry, Amis is the Steve Jobs of book promoters, and his product rollouts are as carefully managed as anything Apple dreams up. "

" Arrogance, ignorance, and incompetence. Not a pretty cocktail of personality traits in the best of situations. No sirree. Not a pretty cocktail in an office-mate and not a pretty cocktail in a head of state. In fact, in a leader, it's a lethal cocktail. "

" I don't think you can be a credible, modern candidate for president without making the environment a major part of your platform. "

" The greatest thing that prepared me for editing 'Vanity Fair' was having four kids because you just learn to subjugate your ego with the greater interest in mind. "

" Everything I love about America is fragile. "

" Hatred for Obama... has more to do with race than anything else. "

" It could safely be said that Iraqis are dying at a faster clip since the American-led invasion and occupation than they did during the last decade of Saddam Hussein's rule. "

" What do you call an electorate that seems prone to acting out irrationally, is full of inchoate rage, and is constantly throwing fits and tantrums? You call it teenaged. "

" History is nothing if not an epic tale of missed opportunities. "