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.

I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling.

That was the overwhelming thing to me, the joy of carrying my portable typewriter to an event and trying to describe it.

The greatest thing you can do in life is to tell a young boy or girl that they're 'the very best' at something - baseball, reading, art. That gives them the wonderful feeling that they can do anything, which they can!

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

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.