I am usually part of any disaster at a wedding if I'm a bridesmaid which I've been lucky enough to be several times.

The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft no new taxes no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families.

I have a friend that is a WWII buff and we sat and talked a lot about stuff like the war and the reasons behind it and you now it's all in the uniform. Once you're in it it usually does all the work for you.

Al Jazeera aired a new tape of Osama bin Laden. It was the usual stuff he called Bush evil the Great Satan called him a war monger. Basically the same thing you heard at last night's Democratic debate.

There's no doubt that usually a president's public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.

Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth and you haven't.

Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But it's usually too battered with rules to be heard and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.

I've worked with many directors good ones and bad ones. So if I have a chance to work the good ones I better put myself in their hands and trust them because that's my big opportunity to be different and to be better than usual.

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.