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.

Because there are so many shows on and because I've been so hands-on - I've had a piece on almost every single week - I don't know how to cut back on that. You really can't.

I happen to disagree with the well-entrenched theory that the art of conversation is merely the art of being a good listener. Such advice invites people to be cynical with one another and full of fake; when a conversation becomes a monologue, poked along with tiny cattle-prod questions, it isn't a conversation any more.

when your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.

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.

A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.

The feeling is that Fidel Castro's much bigger than he actually is.