There is melancholy in the wind and sorrow in the grass

I'm not any kind of social reformer.

It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself.

New York is the true City of Light in any season.

What I learned on the road. Above all else - to love my native land.

I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air.

I didn't know what narcissism was until I beheld my own naricssus.