Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country.

If frogs had side pockets, they'd carry hand guns.

In dealing with the press, do yourself a favor, stick with one of three responses: (a) I know and I can tell you; (b) I know and I can't tell you; (c) I don't know.

You'd better do what you feel good about doing. If we [try] to figure out what it is the audience wants and then try to deliver it to them, we're lost souls on the ghost ship forever.

One finds oneself saying: 'I know the right question, but ... this is not exactly the right time to ask it.'

I don't pretend to be a digital savant or even a digital apprentice.

The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted.