It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions.

If you have a boat and a happy marriage, you don't need another thing.

There was a time... when people didn't go out of their house on Tuesday night at eight o'clock because Milton Berle was on.

Agriculture is the new golf

The image of a community is fundamentally important to its economic well-being. If all places look alike, there's no reason to go anywhere.

God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world.

Johnny once described our relationship by saying we were as close as two people could be without being married.