My first job was washing dishes in the basement of a nursing home for $2.10 an hour, and I learned as much about the value of hard work there as I ever did later.

Hubris and science are incompatible.

Once again, we shall have to operate not only outside the box, but outside the room containing the box.

I need to write in a small room - the smaller the better. I can't write in a big room where someone might sneak up behind my back.

One can reach the gates of hell just as easily by short steps as by large.

We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind.

The wise and good are outnumbered a thousand to one by the brutal and stupid.

My hobbies are mountain biking, horseback riding and packing, canoeing and kayaking, hiking, camping, cooking, and skiing.

There are so many journalists out there, I hate to say it, who are lazy and don't do their research - and it shows.

It's a very bad habit, but one I find hard to break.

Retribution is just outstanding.

Cynicism is a boring and dull old man’s disease people have no business getting when they’re young.

I have known some quite good people who were unhappy but never an interested person who was unhappy.

People care about what newspapers tell them to care about.

Maybe people don't know I'm a news junkie? I watch and I tape a breadth of everything that's happening in the world, and that fascinates me.

I've been asked to direct pilots for a lot of shows.

It always impresses me when a person of small stature has command.

Sure I do, and if someone paid you six-thousand dollars a game, you'd have fun as well.

Jesus on the Cross feels the whole weight of the evil, and with the force of God's love he conquers it, he defeats it with his resurrection.

Being a parent does not give you an excuse for bad manners.

Man's worst ill is stubbornness of heart.