Putting people in a room and strapping wires to their wrist to find out if I make them tingle when I'm telling them about Beirut is a long way from Edward R. Murrow.

If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?

If you believe in your heart that you are right, you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time.

The new national campfire - radio.

A good time to laugh is any time you can.

What I like most about change is that it's a synonym for 'hope'. If you're taking a risk, what you are really saying is, 'I believe in tomorrow and I will be the part of it.

In the coldest February, as in every other month in every other year, the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other.

I want to know why, if men rule the world, they don't stop wearing neckties.

When the anchorman is wearing a colonel's uniform, it tells you something.

People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.

Only dead fish swim with the stream all of the time.

Don't question your conscience so much--it will get out of tune like a strummed piano. Keep it for great occasions.

What is research but a blind date with knowledge?

Fathers are the geniuses of the house because only a person as intelligent as we could fake such stupidity.

In history there are no control groups. There is no one to tell us what might have been. We weep over the might have been, but there is no might have been. There never was.

He that goeth farre hath many encounters.

I don't think art is a goal orientated business. I don't do things for the challenges, I only do them because I love them, I'm not really a goal orientated, achiever type of person.

I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible. From the air, fast down, and from the ground, fast up.

I got a king-sized bed. I don't know any kings, but if one came over, I guess he'd be comfortable.

Fiction offered me tools that allowed me to approach a wider variety of issues than the events of my own life would.

I find myself looking around for other new, interesting opportunities to dive into.