My main worry is that after a certain point you become so identified with a character and a series that you might not be able to get work when your show goes off the air.

We host some trips all over the world. We go to Alaska. We go to Mexico. We're going to Venezuela in December. We've been to Russia, all in conjunction with the radio show.

Three days a week and Im home at the ranch in Fallbrook with my avocados.

On other shows, guys can't wait to put 3000 miles between them during hiatus.

I love talk and I love fishing. I'm having a ball.

Every weekend he'd have me come down to work on Dragnet, which by now was on television as well as radio.

I even played Jack Webb's partner on the radio version of Dragnet for a while.

My wife and two children traveled with me on locations all last season.

There are no perfect decisions, only excellent applications.

As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.

Everybody in the world has an ego. The only difference between us is we have a reason to have an ego.

And I think if you're going to be with somebody, you owe it to them to show yourself.

A book begins as a private excitement of the mind.

Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant. [Lat., Misce stultitiam consiliis brevem: Dulce est desipere in loco.

I do not believe in the gifted. If [the students] have ganas, I can make them do it.

The point is to solve problems, not point fingers.

I might be the only chick in the group, but that didn't make me the damsel in distress.

I hold to the idea that civility, understood as the willingness to engage in public discourse, is the first virtue of citizens.