I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.

Being a reporter seems a ticket out to the world.

Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, [Jack] always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer.

I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.

The greatest responsibility is your children. If my children turned out badly, I'd feel that nothing I had done was worthwhile.

Our culture will become like it was during the medieval times when there truly was a cultural elite. The rest of the people will just watch television, which will be their only frame of reference.

When Harvard men say they have graduated from Radcliffe, then we've made it.