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.

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.

It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.

When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you think you're in control, but you're not.

Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters - and with much the same defensive mechanisms.

The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.

The word 'charismatic' was made for Fidel Castro. You would have liked him, I would have liked him. Then you had to stop and say, 'Just a minute. This is a man who does not believe in freedom of the press...does not believe in democracy as we know democracy, had political prisoners.'