I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.

TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air.

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

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

I'm not knocking the wholesale grocery business or any other, but there is a kind of romance in journalism which some people, the lucky ones, feel inside them all their lives.

I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.

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.