They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

I'm not an impersonator. I've only got one voice and only do one guy and his first-person essays.

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Professor Al Drake encouraged me to just write the way I talk. I decided if that's what I needed to do, I didn't need to be in school to do it.

In the America I see from here, anything is possible - especially the impossible.

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

For some people, you know, Garrison Keillor, Rush Limbaugh, really the stars, they've got a passion. They eat, drink and breathe radio, and I'm not like that. I used to think I wanted to be. But I need to be away from it, too, and that's the difference, I think.