Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.

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?

Always stay in with the outs.

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

Being a professional means doing your job on the days you don't want to do it

There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'

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