New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

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 have an ego like anybody else, but I don't need to be stoked by going before the public all the time.

What's all this fuss about plutonium? How can something named after a Disney character be dangerous?

I don't think it's you that changes with success - it's the people around you who change. Because of your new status, they change in relation to you.

Maybe we should hold the next [Olympic] games in Afghanistan and hope the Soviets pull out of that one too.

Your chances of getting hit by lighting go up if you stand under a tree, shake your fist at the sky, and say "Storms suck!!