It became sort of a snowball effect, with guys trying to deal in their own way with 9/11, whether it was drinking or whatever.

Sin is in, and so we begin.

Once you have a firefighter in your family, your family and the families from his crew become one big extended family.

Kids are incredibly expensive. But it pays off later when they are better educated, bigger, and better-looking than you. And find you incessantly boring and uncool.

In addition to my cousin, there were 30 or 40 guys I grew up with who became firefighters as well. So, I've been around firefighters all my life.

The biggest battle for a lot of people who come out of the theater, which is where I was trained, is that they can never forget that a camera is pointed at them.

No woman can be completely happy at any one moment in time. They're always anticipating the next thing to argue or complain about.