O love, what strange and wonderful fits: one sole thing, one beauty alone, can give me life and deprive me of wits.

You know, I was at CBS News for 28 years. I may have run an unidentified source. Frankly, I don't remember.

Being a musician is a job - it is just a really fun one!

If you have half a story and you don't know the rest, you use what you have to pry the rest out of someone.

True literacy is becoming an arcane art, and the nation is steadily "dumbing down."

We don't need more stupid ideas.

Oh the sisters of mercy, they are not departed or gone.

I write in the mornings, two or three hours every day, and then at least four times a week I play in a duplicate game at a bridge club. I try to go to tournaments three, four, or five times a year.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

I'm really into food; it's one of my favourite things - everything from potato waffles to lobster.

I've learned the hard lesson that you can't pin your heart on anything until it's a completely done deal.