The map of the world is always changing; sometimes it happens overnight. All it takes is the blink of an eye, the squeeze of a trigger, a sudden gust of wind. Wake up and your life is perched on a precipice; fall asleep, it swallows you whole.

The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it.

The farther you go...the harder it is to return. The world has many edges and it's easy to fall off.

Don't fall in love with a bonobo, because it's gonna die.

If I'm hip, we've got a problem in this country. I really shouldn't be held up as any model of hipness. If anything, I think I'm sort of old school in my approach to objective reporting and not wearing my opinion on my sleeve. There's a lot of that in American TV news these days. Too much, in fact.

[Andy Cohen] enjoy your fame more than anyone I know.

Learning what you don't want to do is the next best thing to figuring out what you want to do.