It's really hard to scare people on network television. You've got to be smart about it. You've got to parcel out the scares.

I love jazz and funk, because it's hard. If it's not hard, it's not worth doing.

He is a leader among leaders.

When something original works, then everyone wants to copy it. But if you're trying to do something that no one's ever seen before it's frightening.

The teaching of any science, for purposes of liberal education, without linking it with social progress and teaching its social significance, is a crime against the student mind. It is like teaching a child how to pronounce words but not what they mean.

New Zealand totally rejects Japan's proposals to double the number of whales slaughtered in the Southern Ocean

I grew up a child of Watergate. It gave me a good dose of skepticism about authority. One of my favorite movies is 'All the President's Men.' Woodward and Bernstein, those guys were my heroes. I have a degree in journalism.