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People Feel Vulnerable When They Travel. Nobody Wants To Be Taken Advantage Of Or Talked Into Something They Don't Want. Staying At Motel 6 Makes You Feel Smarter. In Fact, I Think It Actually Means You Are Smarter, But I Have No Hard Data To Support That.

The Media Is In The Business Of Finding Exceptions To Everyday Life. Bad Things Are Still The Exception. That's Good, Because Once Bad Things Stop Being News, We Really Are In Trouble. If People Forget That Bad Is The Exception, They Think They Live In A Horrible World. There Is So Much That Works And Is Right And Friendly And Warm. But We Take That For Granted.

I'm Not An Impersonator. I've Only Got One Voice And Only Do One Guy And His First-person Essays.

You Can Make A New Friend But You Can't Make An Old One.

Somebody Says, 'do A Tom Bodett, A Folksy Kind Of Thing,' And It Sounds Like Something Out Of 'hee Haw,' Very Insulting. They Turn Wry Humor Into Disparaging Sarcasm, And You Get What Amounts To Insulting Advertising.