Before the injuries, we were a tight unit with the roles clearly defined. But once we lost players, all the read more

Before the injuries, we were a tight unit with the roles clearly defined. But once we lost players, all the roles had to change.

I have to be realistic. Everest has about a 33 percent success ratio. That's a one in three shot. I'm read more

I have to be realistic. Everest has about a 33 percent success ratio. That's a one in three shot. I'm a little older than most. This is my first trip. Most people wind up making a couple of trips before they summit. I don't know what my chances will be.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers read more

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another. - "On the Cryptic and the Elliptic", 1908.

The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led read more

The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.

Radiation portal monitors are...allowing highly trained [Customers and Border Protection] officers to better deter, detect and defend Americans from a read more

Radiation portal monitors are...allowing highly trained [Customers and Border Protection] officers to better deter, detect and defend Americans from a potential terror attack.

I like letting people in on the process. When we did a speed-dating scene, we hired all these hilarious women read more

I like letting people in on the process. When we did a speed-dating scene, we hired all these hilarious women ... and let them go off on Steve. ... If something's funny, I hate for it to just sit in a basement.

We moved in the winter, so it was really bad. It was really depressing for me. It was really cold, read more

We moved in the winter, so it was really bad. It was really depressing for me. It was really cold, and every day it was snowing. Joe went to school, and I had to stay in the house all the time, watching the snow.

We are going to try to improve our mental attitude that we are able to defend at a 10 level read more

We are going to try to improve our mental attitude that we are able to defend at a 10 level no matter what happened at the other end.

I try to be a good parent. I've probably repressed my kids more than I should have, protecting them overly. read more

I try to be a good parent. I've probably repressed my kids more than I should have, protecting them overly. I never hit them. I yelled a lot.