Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.

I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty.

I didn't have a very religious family.

It's a fact that it is much more comfortable to be in the position of the person who has been offended than to be the unfortunate cause of it.

The news media in general are liberals.

The news media in general are liberal. If you want to be a reporter, you are going to see poverty and misery, and you have to be involved in the human condition.

If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.