Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.

I didn't like the competitiveness of big-time journalism.

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.

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 started out thinking of America as highways and state lines. As I got to know it better, I began to think of it as rivers.

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

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.