Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a wonderful way to live one's life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7.

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

I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.

...Pomeranians speak only to Poodles and Poodles speak only to God.

I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn't time enough to read everything I wanted to read.

I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society.

I'm not any kind of social reformer.