No one likes the house next door to look worse or a lot better than his own.

I've learned that under everyone's hard shell is someone who wants to be appreciated and loved.

I know a lot of you believe that most people in the news business are liberal. Let me tell you, I know a lot of them, and they were almost evenly divided this time. Half of them liked Senator Kerry; the other half hated President Bush.

Person-to-person, most people are honest.

In the futile attempts we all make to tidy up our lives and our surroundings, nothing is more difficult than throwing out a book.

Sooner or later the world will have to return to the good old days when we fought wars and killed people the old-fashioned way, one at a time.

I am interested in details. If you go into anything far enough, you get into the details of it, and people turn out to be interested in what makes things work.