I didn't have the ambition to be a broadcaster. I was going to be a newspaper reporter the rest of my life, but that opportunity came along.

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.

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

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

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

It is liberalism, whether people like it or not, which has animated all the years of my life. What on Earth did conservatism ever accomplish for our country?

It's that enthusiasm, that passion for what you're doing, that is most important.