Writing about race and crime was not new territory for me. But it can be treacherous. So here are my rules: No stereotypes. No generalizations. No explanations. No apologies. Just the facts, ma'am.

Just say anything without even caring if it is true. That is how riots start.

Note to reporters: The sanctimony thing probably works better on someone who has never broken real stories.

What she did was like the people stirring up the riots in Egypt and Libya, said my liberal brother John Flaherty. Just say anything without even caring if it is true. That is how riots start.

Writing about race and crime was not new territory for me. But it can be treacherous. So here are my rules: No stereotypes. No generalizations. No explanations. No apologies. Just the facts, ma’am.

A man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest success only comes later.

Shakespeare's so bloody difficult, and I don't like failure. You can fail on film, but there's nobody actually there in the flesh to watch you failing.

In high school, I taught dance classes for 3-year-olds up to 16-year-olds, so between that and some bat mitzvah money, I saved up a pretty good nest egg to move to L.A.

We mountaineers always live with the feeling that we came on the scene too late.

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

I am not against marriage. I lived with someone for 11 years. But we weren't in love, and I thought that was quite important.

Like the newspapers used to say, if the truth isn't big enough, you print the legend.

The variables vary too much and the constants aren't as constant as they seem.