My responsibility is to get the story right. I can't predict or be concerned with the consequences.

I'm still the kid who grew up with ink on his hands from delivering newspapers.

Anytime you do a story that has an impact beyond that day's headlines and in what I regard as a very positive direction there has to be a certain amount of pride.

The power of a boy's dream is one of life's little miracles, the way it wraps itself around the heart and remains through old age to the last breath.

The search for meaning was the cornerstone of human disquiet.

Stand in nature before anyone else has woken and most people find something to believe in.

Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble never unhappy or ill never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them.

Sound had always been my portal to poetry, but in the beginning, sound was imagined through the eye.

Expediency may tip the scales when arguments are nicely balanced.

I must have done about 25,000 promos.

Don't drink in the hotel bar, that's where I do my drinking.

It's time to take a look at my failures and stop calling them successes. Now I can start working at something that can use me best.

My sense of view became tactile not colourful, immediate not distant. Something within arms' reach