Life begins when you do.

I've always thought that the stereotype of the dirty old man is really the creation of a dirty young man who wants the field to himself.

A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.

Television is the medium of the 20th century.

I have no ego investment in being on the air. I don't knock others for whom that kind of attention is like oxygen, but I don't miss anything about it.

There are more stars known to exist right now than the total number of all the grains of sand on every beach in the entire world. With those kinds of odds, it would seem downright naive for someone to go to a beach in, say, some out-of-the-way inlet in Baffin Bay, stoop to pick up only one tiny grain of sand, and declare that that grain alone was the only place where life could exist.

To say, my fate is not tied to your fate, is like saying your end of the boat is sinking.