The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me.

Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots.

The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months.

For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work.

Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight.

Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.

It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort.

Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.

No matter how many goals you have achieved, you must set your sights on a higher one.

Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude.

Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive.

That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.

Discover everything about your characters that you can before you write your story. If you get stuck at any point, they will write your dialog for you.

She got the magazine on a Wednesday morning, and on Thursday announced our marriage was over.

I don't know of any army that does more than an Israeli army does to avoid civilian casualties. But incidental and unintended casualties accompany every war.

In youth all doors open outward; in old age all open inward.

In my mind, I'm writing for everybody.

That's what being crazy was, wasn't it? You thought you were fine. Everyone else knew better.

Now is now. Are you going to be here or not?

I'm not saving lives. I'm singing and I should go placidly and joyously through the whole thing and work hard and not take it for granted. It's great to have this gift.

Capitalism is not a human being. Capitalism is a Moloch, a god, a god of bloody sacrifice that sees human beings as ants