Art Bell
Art Bell

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

Art Bell
Art Bell

Fear is a great motivator. Look at what 9-11 has accomplished - My god. It's slammed the economy, It's - I can't even begin to detail all it's actually done, other than bring down the buildings and hit the Pentagon. It's stunned the entire nation.

Art Bell
Art Bell

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

Art Bell
Art Bell

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.

Art Bell
Art Bell

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.

Art Bell
Art Bell

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

Art Bell
Art Bell

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

Art Bell
Art Bell

I talk about weird stuff. What I do only works at night, only on the radio.

Art Bell
Art Bell

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.

Art Bell
Art Bell

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

Art Bell
Art Bell

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

Art Bell
Art Bell

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

Art Bell
Art Bell

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

Art Bell
Art Bell

I've always been a technological junkie.

Art Bell
Art Bell

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.

Art Bell
Art Bell

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

Art Bell
Art Bell

I think - no, I'm sure - 'Coast to Coast' wouldn't work with a daytime audience.

Art Bell
Art Bell

Radio is not a job; it's a way of life. You can't really ever leave it.

Art Bell
Art Bell

The 9/11 truthers hate my guts.

Art Bell
Art Bell

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.