“You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.”

“I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.”

“I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.”

“I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of.”

“I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.”

“I have relationships with people I'm working with, based on our combined interest. It doesn't make the relationship any less sincere, but it does give it a focus that may not last beyond the experience.”

“I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.”

“We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.”

“What is news? It's hard to quantify. Certainly news has changed completely, and the morning shows are not really designed to bring you the news, except to tell you what happened overnight, and the rest of it is a kind of magazine mentality - a little bit of this, a little bit of that. It's harder to be an educated and informed citizen.”

“You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.”

“Nature doesn't need people - people need nature; nature would survive the extinction of the human being and go on just fine, but human culture, human beings, cannot survive without nature.”