I made friends with a lot of those who could have criticized me in print and who didn't, who praised me instead.

When I was a little boy I used to borrow my father's hat, and make a press card to stick in the hat band. That was the way reporters were always portrayed in the movies.

I don't think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures.

When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.

You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.

We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.

Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter.