My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.

I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.

I have always been very diversified, so I have never suffered a catastrophic loss. I spread my money around the way a large institutional investor does. I use different brokerage firms. I manage some of my accounts myself.

When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to sleep.' Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older, I've realized just how smart Knight was.

I'm not a Mensa member. I have no idea where that rumor came from. I never have been, and I doubt if I ever will be.

What's a good investment? Go home from work early and spend the afternoon throwing a ball around with your son.

Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.