Take risks ... be willing to put your mind and your spirit, your time and your energy, your stomach and your emotions on the line. To search for a safe place, to search for an end to a rainbow, is to search for a place that you will hate once you find it. The soul must be nourished along with the bank account and the resume. The best nourishment for any soul is to create your own risks.

In my case, I was covering politics in Texas as a newspaper man in the 1960's.

We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat.

I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody.

I'm not in the being-annoyed business.

I'm not in the judgment part of journalism.

If people want bells and whistles and all of that, there are bells and whistles available. If they don't want bells and whistles there are places to go where they are not available.