When there was a disaster, it used to be that people went to church and all held hands. Now the minute anything happens they run to CNN.

I've always said there are four words that every child in the world knows, and those are, "Tell me a story,." Even the people who wrote the Bible knew that. They told stories, like the story of Noah.

Confrontation is not a dirty word. Sometimes it's the best kind of journalism as long you don't confront people just for the sake of a confrontation.

I plan to die at my desk.

I can tell you categorically that we at 60 Minutes did not pay Michael Jackson one cent.

Let's give the conventions back to the politicians. If we think there's any news, we can tack it on afterward as commentary. But the conventions should be their show, not ours.

Self-knowledge is power.

You can start on a clean slate or make excuses, but you can't do both.

I want to believe that memories, even sad and painful ones, should not be forgotten forever.

You should be more carefulwhen you move, my dearwhat with you...spilling moonlightinto my poem, with a mereflick of your hand.

I didn't get into fighting for the money. I didn't want to be famous. I just want to fight.

A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.

I eat the same way Doc Brown fuels the DeLorean at the end of Back to the Future.

Libraries aren't in the real world, after all. They're places apart, sanctuaries of pure thought. In this way I can go on living on the moon for the rest of my life.

The whole object of science is to synthesize, and so simplify; and did we but know the uttermost of a subject we could make it singularly clear.

Oh no, the dead have risen and they're voting Republican.