My bladder cancer was related to smoking, and I think smoking kills people.

It's no longer just reporting the headlines of the day, but trying to put the headlines into some context and to add some perspective into what they mean.

Talk about threats to national security -- how about government so big, so complicated and so unmanageable, it cant get out of its own way?

But if you don't enjoy doing something, you'll be miserable no matter how much money you make.

The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families.

I had - all my life, everybody who knew me thought that I would probably grow up to be a reporter, a newspaper reporter because we didn't have much television in those days.

I always thought writing was the foundation and the basis for journalism in the same way being able to draw is the foundation for art.