My friend Anderson Cooper is the scion of one of America's great shipping and railroad families, the Vanderbilts.

Boldness be my friend.

I like to look good, my friend.

He was a nobody. One of those shy kids who turned into social invalids when that first blast of adolescence hit, meekly accepted their fate, and became invisible.

I'm cool with Jay-Z. Jay-Z is genuinely my friend.

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.