People from small towns have to have their edges roughed up to get along in the world. But as a street reporter, you learn quickly.

There's something magical about putting yourself into life. You've got to stand up and take responsibility for your own life and you cannot abandon that.

The prediction that glaciers will be gone from Glacier National Park has been moved up by 10 years to 2020, the same year it's predicted the Arctic Sea will be ice-free in the summer.

I think I'm so old I'm in. We call it the 'Tony Bennett Syndrome.' For some reason, young people think I'm cool.

The one important thing you do as boss is you set the standard. The minute you go in and say 'we'll let it go this time,' you set a new standard, which is lower. So you cannot do that.

You need a very good financial person to keep you honest, and to keep track of income and outgo.

I never wanted to retire. I wanted to kind of shift my work pattern so I could stay fresh and invigorated, and use the experience that I had gained in 30 years, but in a slightly different direction.

If you're a producer, you always spend too much money because you want that shot - and you're willing to spend a bundle to get it.

My personal philosophy is I'm running a 100-yard dash, and I haven't reached the end.

Why die on Mars when you can live in South Dakota? South Dakota, you can live here.

In L.A., everyone is competing for the next job, and in New York, it's pretty much the same thing: competing for a better job.

Aloneeverything changes.Some might call it distorted realitybut it's exactly the place I need to be.

Democracy can exist only in the countries where people are brave! Coward nations always live under the authoritarian regimes!

Books aren't written, they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it...

But man by his nature is an unnatural animal. If any creature stands a chance of defeating death, it is man.

Whatever one is creating, one has to stick to one's guns and just do it. That is all. Put your foot down and do not let your work be compromised.

Your age is the sum total of your physical condition, the condition of your mind, and how you feel.

Nice tights," I snorted. Or I tried to snort, anyway. I'm not exactly sure how, though people in books are always doing it.

Television is to news as bumperstickers are to philosophy.

Perhaps that is our doom, our human curse, to never really know one another.

I don't think a monarchy led by 75- and 80-year-old men [Saudi Arabia] in today's modern world is really sustainable.