Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade when we realize there's a reason we need to diet or pay down our debt. The reason is that it's really really hard and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard.

I think in my case I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my dad Danny Thomas and George Burns and Bob Hope and Milton Berle and Sid Caesar and all those guys were at our house all the time and telling jokes and making each other laugh.

My imagination completely controls me and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams. I've always had a wild imagination a big heart and a tortured soul so I feel that dark fantasy love and horror are in my blood.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

We talk a lot on 'Biggest Loser' about how fitness is a natural antidepressant how it burns off stress. What I like about running is that it gives me time alone. I'm always busy with people at work with my kids. I love getting out for a run by myself and just listening to my music.

The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age.