The Lebanese people voted this time for change. So they are not satisfied with the actual situation. They want to see a new government. They want to see a new vision.
A life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery win or just a bleary-eyed consultant giving bad news in a calm voice.
As soon as I began to earn what might be called fairly large sums, I bought a car and began to explore the country around New York.
When I was in New York, I was making a living. We had a summer house and a car that I could put in a garage. That's something for a stage actor.
In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934.
I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.
The coffee shop is a great New York institution, but it has terrible coffee. And the more traditional coffee shops are trying to catch up with more sophisticated coffee drinkers.
The early gigs were pretty panicky - and great, sweaty fun. We were brand new to most people, and they were willing to take anything brand new, for the first time in years.
New York is a great place to be as an unrepresented actor because there are so many 'open auditions' that you can show up for without being submitted by an agent.
New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.
New York is great, but I miss L.A. - I feel like there was something exotic about L.A. that I kind of underestimated at the time. It was very unfamiliar to me.
We talk about globalization today as if it's some great big new thing, that we've all just discovered. But there's really nothing new about it.
New York is a great place to be fed in the arts. The arts in general are a large part of my life. The city was my postgraduate course.
I suppose that's why new music and I go well together, because new music often requires maintaining great rhythm.
We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.
I was Mayor of New York during a great Yankees dynasty. I got to preside over the city during four Yankees championships.
With other people, you're always swapping music. Somebody is always listening to something you've never heard. It's a great way to hear all sorts of new things.
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.
Basketball is big stuff in New York. If you're good in it, everybody respects you. Nobody would want to ruin your shooting eye or your shooting arm.
Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond.
We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world... learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate.
