Chris Matthews can't start any sentence without 'Let me ask you this... ' And I love Chris Matthews! But almost everybody in journalism does it. Who's stopping you? Just say it!

I'm not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block. I did it, but it remained hard when it had once been easy.

Unpleasant reading on the subject of anger tells us that there's not really anything wrong with it. In limited amounts. It can even be a good thing. A pressure valve.

A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.

Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.

I don't see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty - and evaporating quickly.

Every time someone says, 'You know, we really ought to get together,' if I were really honest, I would ask 'Why?'