The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong.

What looked safe was not safe. What looked hard and unsafe was probably safer. Anyway, safe was somewhere else in the world.

The byline is a replacement for many other things, not the least of them money. If someone ever does a great psychological profile of journalism as a profession, what will be apparent will be the need for gratification—if not instant, then certainly relatively immediate. Reporters take sustenance from their bylines; they are a reflection of who you are, what you do, and why, to an uncommon degree, you exist. ... A journalist always wonders: If my byline disappears, have I disappeared as well?

Nixon, who spent much of his career attacking the press and saying he was a victim of the press, was in fact created by the press, in this case the L.A. Times.

If there is anything that is important to America, it is that you are not a prisoner of the past.

Few sports has as great a disparity between the time committed in practice and time actually spent in game or race conditions.

I have a great faith in the strength and the resilience in the American people.