It's important to go with the flow. If you go to a restaurant in Spain at 7 p.m., that's bad news. The staff is eating then.

I'm like the general public. I didn't put it together [about the razing] until recently. A little bit, I was in denial.

Eastern Europe has been really trendy. Prague is the best-preserved city in the region ... and the best beer in Europe lands on your table there for 50 cents.

Self-consciousness kills communication.

Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something is not to your liking, change your liking.

The king of Spain is a great potentate, who stands with one foot in the east and the other in the west; and the sun never sets that it does not shine on some of his dominions.