in television the product is not the program; the product is the audience and the consumer of that product is the advertiser. The advertiser does not 'buy' a news program. He buys an audience.

In the coldest February, as in every other month in every other year, the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other.

Just because it's a rat race doesn't mean it's okay to be a rat.

If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?

When the anchorman is wearing a colonel's uniform, it tells you something.

[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.

Like Nietzsche, I believe that without music, life would be a mistake. Nothing but silence says it better.