I don't know what makes a good feature story. I've always assumed that if it was a story that interested or amused me, that it would have the same impact on other people.

I didn't like the competitiveness of big-time journalism.

You know, most reporters can't go back to the towns they wrote stories about. I never wrote that kind of story.

I suppose I was a little bit of what would be called today a nerd. I didn't have girlfriends, and really I wasn't a very social boy.

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.

In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality.

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