My dad was very much a John Wayne kind of guy, but he was also a great guy, great sense of humor, a real dedicated dad. I don't think he ever missed a hockey game I was in.
You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.
I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is.
Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience.
News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute.
My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30.
My most lucrative job in college was a stint as the regional Dodge Girl.
My health, thank God, has kept my brain alive.
To my deep mortification my father once said to me, "You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat-catching, and you will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family. "
I would much rather fight pride than vanity, because pride has a stand-up way of fighting. You know where it is. It throws its black shadow on you, and you are not at a loss where to strike. But vanity is that delusive, that insectiferous, that multiplied feeling, and men that fight vanities are like men that fight midges and butterflies. It is easier to chase them than to hit them.
To me, jazz is the closest thing to insanity that there is in music.