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

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

I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time.

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

A true Southerner will never say in 2-3 words what can better be said in 10-12.

I was on the high school track team, believe it or not, and played baseball, poorly but passionately.

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