Here's a guy [Richard Nixon] who had no gift for small talk, never liked to be around strangers, was physically awkward, and he goes into the one business that calls for ease with strangers and a gift for small talk.

Anybody who says that having the public recognize them and relate to the work they do is irritating should get into another line of work. You're in this business for people to know what you do and like it.

The act of getting married, stripped of the necessity to have a secure setting to raise children, seems to me no less grim than registering your emotions with the government.

You can get an awful lot of effects into the customer's mind for a great deal less time and money in radio than you can in television.

Privilege has its own way of seeing the world. It's not about the kind of people they are; it's about the situation they're in.

I'm not sure that there's anybody else that's as psychologically complex and who's given us this window into his soul that Nixon gave us. That's what I find absolutely addictive and seductive.

I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines. Nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation.