Time doesn't go. Time stays. We go.

[My father] was generous with his affection, given to great, awkward, engulfing hugs, and I can remember so clearly the smell of his hugs, all starched shirt, tobacco, Old Spice, and Cutty Sark. Sometimes I think I've never been properly hugged since.

Dreck is dreck and no amount of fancy polish is going to make it anything else.

Some of the qualities that go into making a good reporter - aggressiveness, a certain sneakiness, a secretive nature, nosiness, the ability to find out that which someone wants hidden, the inability to take 'no' with any sort of grace, a taste for gossip, rudeness, a fair disdain for what people will think of you and an occasional and calculated disregard for rules - are also qualities that go into making a very antisocial human being.

I am not for abortion; nobody is for abortion. I am for your right to make your own hard choices in this world.

The new national campfire - radio.

The whole town looks as if it had been left out in the rain too long and by mistake.