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

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

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.

I don't exactly know what it means to be ready. A cake when the oven timer goes off? Am I fully baked, or only half-baked?

Sometimes a crumb fallsFrom the tables of joy, Sometimes a boneIs flung.To some peopleLove is given, To othersOnly heaven.

When there's an adult person who's scaring you, you grow up pretty quickly.

Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting.

Being a soldier [in the wars of modern power politics] was like being on a team in a sport that drew no crowds, except for the players' own parents and friends.

I would not wish to marry someone who had already been married. It would be,' she opined, 'like having someone else break in one's own pony.

I used to say that the newspapers were tomorrow's fish and chip paper, but I didn't really mean it; I could still be hurt by what they said. After Athens, I just didn't care.

I crave white on white and black, but my thoughts race in glorious technicolour, prodding me awake, whipping away the warm blanket of invisibility every time it sears to smother my mind in nothing.

Orwell says somewhere that no one ever writes the real story of their life. The real story of a life is the story of its humiliations.

Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.

I confess I could never see any good reason why dirt should always be a necessary concomitant of poverty.