For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work.

Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.

Television is intensely personal.

Walking into a room filled with people you don't know but who know you brings out your worst vulnerabilities.

News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute.

The relationship between talent — a term loosely applied to those who work on-air — and management is uneasy, at best.

I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist.