I'm trying to be entertaining without being mean

I just simply write as it moves me. I may be writing about a book or a movie or a person, places where I've been or something I've done. Or politics. It's going to what's on my mind at the moment

I just wanted to have fun for myself - I felt I had a lot to say, and I realized that I missed having a magazine as a place to express my ideas. The Times column is a place for me to unload those perceptions

Manners are the ability to put someone else at their ease...by turning any answer into another question.

Wearing hats has become like fine art for me.

In the end, Dan Rather's legend skewered him, CBS and the craft of journalism.

In TV, you always feel you are standing on the tracks of an oncoming train