First of all, I'm a Midwesterner, being from Kansas, and Chicago is basically a big Midwestern cow town. It was built from the stockyards, and everyone is very friendly, and it's at the edge of the tallgrass prairie. There's just a good feel to it.

Movie stars and singers never fully pass away because their images are replayed on film and recordings, over and over.

In L.A., everyone is competing for the next job, and in New York, it's pretty much the same thing: competing for a better job.

There's room for a diversity of ages on television.

I travel so much on stories, so I don't take vacation much, but one place I go back to again and again is my ranch.

You need a very good financial person to keep you honest, and to keep track of income and outgo.

Politics is still the No. 1 sport in town and the scoreboard shows the U.S. attorney's office leading.