Mike had called me and said he could offer me less, and I said, "You're on!" Because I was really excited with what Mike Kelly was doing, and now what Cullen Murphy is doing with Atlantic. It's a really cool magazine.

Many reporters, when they go to work in the nation's capital, begin thinking of themselves as participants in the political process instead of glorified stenographers.

Smoking cigarettes seems to alarm peace activists much more than voting for Reagan does.

If you get outside the world of show business and its satellites, there's a whole world of car nuts in the Los Angeles area.

A world government run by the UN will be like getting an old, purblind, half-deaf substitute teacher.

I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now. You've probably never woken up early on a winter morning to the acid stink of coal smoke in the air, which was everywhere when I was a little kid. My grade school was heated with coal. Not only was coal used to generate electricity, it was without any scrubbers in the stacks.

Whenever people tell you they are going to wipe the slate clean, it's your slate they mean to wipe.