In the dining room, next to my collection of colorful papier-mache Mardi Gras float art, hang draperies made of the New Orleans toile fabric that I designed pre-Katrina for Hazelnut.

Labels don't really impress, it's the uniqueness and risk in decor that inspire.

You know, I think I was always intrigued by theater since I was a small child.

Until everyone is free, the experiment of America is not succeeding. We all want opportunity.

I did grow up in New Orleans. I grew up right on the lake, right across the levee.

Did Anthony Hopkins really have to be a serial killer to be in 'Silence of the Lambs?,' I don't think so, no. It's called acting, people.

I am a collector of many things, but I particularly love the sterling silver mint julep cups, each engraved with the titles of the Broadway shows in which I appeared.

Put every light you have on a dimmer. Because after a certain age, we can play with the lighting and set it on how you look best on it. Its cheaper than plastic surgery.

I tend to wake up in the middle of the night with ideas crying to be documented.

It's funny... musical theater is what paid my rent and kept me going for the longest time.

We have a costume closet at home. My family will put on a costume for any excuse.

There are certain skills that business people have that are - that are, in fact, helpful in - when it comes to being in political leadership.

I believe that inside every tool is a hammer.

I think that's more a reflection of the fact I've never been a student of any particular school of writing, or even listening.

Some allies are more dangerous than enemies.

Your face is marked with lines of life, put there by love and laughter, suffering and tears. It's beautiful.

When I was a child, writing was the worst possible choice of a career in my family.

Every good historian is almost by definition a revisionist. He looks at the accepted view of a particular historic episode or period with a very critical eye.

I consider myself a leader of this football team, along with a lot of other guys.

Any affair, by its very nature, is quite dysfunctional.

Which means she to deceive, father or mother?