We have to understand how the extremists got the way they are. Without that kind of understanding, we’d never really get to know them. I put in nothing about their childhoods. But what I have put in is stuff about the weird symbiotic relationship between us and them.

I think every relationship has a point where you stop and reevaluate. Are you happy? Have you grown together or apart? What do you share interests in? I think that’s a normal thing to do, but it’s so much harder when it’s done publicly.

The relationship between press and politician – protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial – becomes sour, raw and confrontational.

The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender because this kiss already has within it that surrender.

I’ve got five kids and I’m married, Tommy’s got two kids and he’s been married, Vince just got married again, Mick’s out of a relationship, Tommy’s single as well. We’ve done a lot in our life, we’ve covered a lot of miles.

I really always expected to somebody to make me happy and I don’t think you can really enter into a relationship until you are happy.

It’s just like any relationship, the more contained the environment, the more the good stuff appears and the more the bad stuff will reveal itself.

If you go into a relationship expecting someone else to fill you up, you’re doomed right off.