Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

As an old reporter, we have a few secrets, and the first thing is we try the phone book.

Phyllis Schlafly speaks for all American women who oppose equal rights for themselves.

Writers don't often say anything that readers don't already know, unless its a news story. A writer's greatest pleasure is revealing to people things they knew but did not know they knew. Or did not realize everyone else knew, too. This produces a warm sense of fellow feeling and is the best a writer can do.

My advice is not to wait to be struck by an idea. If you're a writer, you sit down and damn well decide to have an idea. That's the way to get an idea.

I've learned .... That opportunities are never lost; someone will take the ones you miss.

I'm already suspicious of anyone who thinks he or she is smart enough to be president. You'd have to have some ego to believe that about yourself.