The regular guy still relates to him and Howard is a $500 million guy now who dates a model and drives about in a limo all day. But Howard still knows how to make a plumber laugh and those guys still have him on in the morning because he is a real talent.

This morning in the Washington Post there was a statistic about how 85% of Americans are Christians.

The rain which had continued yesterday and last night ceased this morning. We then proceeded and after passing two small islands about ten miles further stopped for the night at Piper's landing opposite another island.

Directing is: you're overwhelmed the whole time. Your mind never stops. If you care about it. You wake up in the morning and you begin thinking about it and then you go to sleep at night and you're still thinking about it.

It says something about this new global economy that USA Today now reports every morning on the day's events in Asian markets.

I remember lying down for a nap one day at about 4:00 and walking up at 11:00 the next morning.

Early on the next morning we reached Kansas about five hundred miles from the mouth of the Missouri.

You get up about 2-3 o'clock in the morning and get through about 7 or 8 and 12 hours later you start all over. That's the worst kind of work a person can do. You have to do these two shifts to get one day.

If I can bring joy into the world if I can get people to stop thinking about their pain for a moment or the fact the tomorrow morning they're going to get up and tell their boss off... then I'll be successful.

I sit down at my desk pretty early in the morning and write all day until about 4 or 5 p.m.