In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent.

Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots.

The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months.

For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work.

Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight.

Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.

It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort.

Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.

No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.

Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude.

Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

The vixen I met at twilight on Route 5 south of Willoughby: long dead. She was an omen to me, surviving, herding her cubs in the silvery bend of the road in nineteen sixty-five.

Luckily, I haven't been offered any $300 million movies that I hate. So I'm not in that predicament just yet.

Having a baby is definitely a labor of love.

it is not wise to keep the fire going under a slander unless you can get some large advantage out of keeping it alive. Few slanders can stand the wear of silence.

Never run after you own hat - others will be delighted to do it; why spoil their fun?

The truth sometimes not sought for comes forth to the light.

I finished 'The Hunger Games' trilogy, and I love most anything with zombies.

Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.

Creative thinking may mean simply the realization that there's no particular virtue in doing things the way they have always been done.