In the America I see from here, anything is possible - especially the impossible.

In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

I come from very common stock, and I've always been uncomfortable with pretension and all the forms it can take, including disingenuous broadcasting.

You can make a new friend but you can't make an old one.

That's what the American odyssey is really about: Leaving home. Leaving home and coming home, and trying to understand the difference.

Mine is not a story to tell struggling writers.

Americans are generally very self-sufficient and I think generally averse to pretension, just as I am.

Professor Al Drake encouraged me to just write the way I talk. I decided if that's what I needed to do, I didn't need to be in school to do it.

Like most Alaska immigrants, my roots continue to petition for equal time.

So grateful for those who truly love me... they hear everything I don't say.

Oh, mankind, race of crocodiles! How well I recognize you down there, and how worthy you are of yourselves!

There aren't a lot of situations where I look back and I say, The decision I actually made or the course we actually pursued was the wrong course.

I had a rough spot about being a goody-goody Mormon, and not drinking or smoking. But I'm kind of grateful I've got this image now. There are no skeletons in my closet. What you see is what you get.

When you have well thought out your subject, words will come spontaneously.

It's probably odd for someone to read an interview where the interviewee is worried about exposure while they're talking in an interview.

I don't think that a company should own a studio and the network, and program for their own network. It hurts the creativity - it is not a level playing field

I don't want my faith level to go up or down. And so I don't fear.

The clothing, the makeup, the freedom of expression in [the models'] bodies. It was Linda and Christy and Naomi at the time. So I modeled before college.

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.