Yes, writing is that easy. Yes, writing is that hard. But if you want to do it you can. Only you can stop you.

It is wrong to ask for more than you give freely. In this way, we come to resemble what we hate.

The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.

I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.

I respect my limitations, but I don't use them as an excuse.

Call me a braggart, call me arrogant. People at ABC (and elsewhere) have called me worse. But when you need the job done on deadline, you'll call me.

Despair and bitterness are not the only songs in the world

This you have to understand. There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back something broken.

The best things in life are often the ones hardest to get. Yet they are also the ones that are the easiest to find, usually right in front of your face.

I may not yet be as old as dirt, but dirt and I are starting to have an awful lot in common.

I'd rather work with someone who's good at their job but doesn't like me, than someone who likes me but is a ninny.

Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox

He who corrects an arrogant man earns insult

While I'm fine with you two dating and being happy, please try not to break his heart too much when the time comes.

Leadership is, among other things, the ability to inflict pain and get away with it - short-term pain for long-term gain.

We punch mirrors and we explore our darker selves. No, it's just an amalgam of all newscasters that we grew up with. Sort of like before there was cable, when these people were like gods.

Finding a stylist is a little like finding a date; you have to find who is right for you.

Whenever people are being intellectually dishonest in debate, it is an implicit concession they have lost the fight

Love cannot exists as a duty; to tell a child that it ought to love its parents and its brother and sisters is utterly useless, if not worse.

If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids taught me that. And I do it with adults now.

Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brishing your teath is the hardest part of the day - it all just hurts.