How is it that so often . . . I get the feeling I've worked hard to learn something I already know, or knew, once."

"We call them twinkies. You've seen them on television acting the news, modeling and fracturing the news while you wonder whether they've read the news -- or if they've blown dried their brains, too."

"When the anchorman is wearing a colonel's uniform, it tells you something."

"Styles, like everything else, change. Style doesn't."

"I think laughter may be a form of courage. . . . As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that."