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

My own time is passing fast enough without some national game to help it along.

I am interested in details. If you go into anything far enough, you get into the details of it, and people turn out to be interested in what makes things work.

Teachers who have plugged away at their jobs for twenty, thirty, and forty years are heroes. I suspect they know in their hearts they've done a good thing, too, and are more satisfied with themselves than most people are. 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.

New ideas are one of the most overrated concepts of our time. Most of the important ideas that we live with aren't new at all.

We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers. More college graduates ought to become plumbers or electricians, then go home at night and read Shakespeare.

I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.