The relationship between talent — a term loosely applied to those who work on-air — and management is uneasy, at best.

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.

In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.

You have many gifts

The closest friends you'll have are the ones you'd take a bullet for, but they're the ones you constantly feel you could put a bullet in as well.

An individual human existence should be like a river

Babies on television never spit up on the Ultrasuede.

I feel like people didn't understand where I was about to go. And a lot of people still don't.

Dilemma of civilized man; body mobilized, but danger obscure.

Today's Politically Correct "historical Jesuses" are no different, being mere clones of the scholars who design them.

It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.

Knowledge of the soul would unfailingly make us melancholy if the pleasures of expression did not keep us alert and of good cheer.