Quotes from Art Bell

But I do believe in the paranormal, that there are things our brains just can't understand.

There are time when, in effect, you can do no wrong, and there are other periods of time when you can do no right, no matter what you do.

I am going to retire, and it is going to be a permanent retirement.

I was crushingly bored talking about politics 30 hours a week.

The greatest question of all is whether our experience on this planet is 'it' or whether there is something else. Things in the supernatural realm give support, strangely perhaps, to the things we take on faith.

I don't like something so fantasy-filled that I couldn't imagine it ever happening. I like things that could come true. That's how I conduct the show.

The net effect of cutting commercials in half is a fairly serious economic reality for Premier - and for me.

I've always been a technological junkie.

People are always demanding proof. These are things that are not easily proved.

There is a difference in what people are willing to consider, daytime versus nighttime.

Fear is a great motivator.

in the process gently reminding the scientific community that it has a bad habit of dismissing what it can't explain instead of evolving better theories.

Seen from this perspective, our unstable environment is the essential wellspring of human evolution and change, and the more serious our environmental problems become, the more creatively we are responding to the challenge.

You may read all about the coast watchers in a book called "Lonely Vigil - Coastwatchers of the Solomons, " by Walter Lord.)

A mind should not be so open that the brains fall out; however, it should not be so closed that whatever gray matter which does reside may not be reached.

Is time our invention, or is time a real thing... I realize we're measuring it, but in the cosmic scheme of things, is there really time?

I get a guest on the air, and they're weird or strange, and I help them tell their story. I don't laugh at them. I listen.

The 9/11 truthers hate my guts.

Thousands of people seeing the same thing cannot all be wrong.

CNN is destroying their franchise. They've become either the trial network or the story network.

If someone's a flake, I help them dig their own hole. I let the audience be the judge. And believe me, they are.

I'm not a gun nut, but go out on my porch. Look around - what's there? Zero, nothing. If I had a problem out here, well, the police would arrive just in time to draw the chalk outline on my floor.

I allow those phones to ring, and I go straight to it. As a result, I get some very, very strange phone calls.

Out here, everything is bigger. You see strange things, and that changes you.