Interviewing politicians and movie stars, you know what you'll get. I like the people-stories better.

The exact time of death, I think, is not something that matters so much at this moment for we will be reliving John Paul's life for many days and weeks and even years and decades and centuries to come.

We do not have an outbreak of Ebola in the United States. Nowhere. We do have two health care workers who contracted the disease from a dying man. They are isolated. There is no information to suggest that the virus has spread to anyone in the general population in America. Not one person in the general population in the United States.

In New York, I like it when you can get bagels at 3 in the morning.

Everybody comes to the journalist with an agenda.

We have a product for sale called news, and I'm a salesman.

And yet, something inside you is so horrible or you're such a coward or whatever the reason that you decide that you have to end it. Robin Williams, at 63, did that today.