According to statistics, it's a lot easier to get hit by lightning than to win a Lotto jackpot. The good side: you don't hear from your relatives.

Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.

How much of the national news that you report to the public each night consists of information you've actually gone out and dug up on your own?

I can empathize with President [George Bush]. I know what it feels like having a young guy waiting around for you to keel over.

People will pay more to be entertained than educated.

I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.

Pittsburgh is kind of like Newark without the cultural advantages.