I obviously have a knack for getting on paper what a lot of people have thought and didn't realize they thought. And they say, 'Hey, yeah!' And they like that.

I've learned... That you should never say no to a gift from a child.

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.

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

I know a lot of you believe that most people in the news business are liberal. Let me tell you, I know a lot of them, and they were almost evenly divided this time. Half of them liked Senator Kerry; the other half hated President Bush.

Space, like Switzerland, should be neutral.

Anyone should be very suspicious of a sentence he's written that can't be read aloud easily.