Often real life is boring and problematic. I love the edited version of it.

I really believe people should be paid for the work that they do.

There should be a revenue stream that helps pay for the publication or for the work and helps pay the people who do it.

When I hear a politician speak biographically, I never know what's part of the campaign biography narrative that's been carefully crafted.

So when the book came out, my mother stunned us all by leaving my father. I think three months before the book came out, she left my father the day he retired from the Marine Corps. They had a parade and march, and she came home and left.

I've never seen radio as the minor leagues, where I'm just really preparing to be in the show that really counts, namely, television, which is, I think, what people often assume. I've never felt that way.

All my brothers and sisters have stories about Dad like this. I remember, when my sister was about to beat him in checkers for the first time, he knocked the board over.