You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.

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.

The sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they want.

I feel as if I'm in on a pass and am damn lucky to have whatever I have. It could all be taken away in a second.

So, who in the media is without sin among us? I am in the media and I am a major league sinner. I don't know anyone except my wife who isn't a big time sinner.

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 always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear or reprisal.