"Whenever I wasn't watching the planes, I was playing community baseball, football, or something like that."

"Although I was entirely relaxed on camera, if I had to stand up and say something to an assembled group of people, I was rendered all but inarticulate."

"A press card does not provide you with an invisible shield. You're flesh and blood."

"In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent."

"In every interview I have ever read or seen or taken part in, the final question in our future-oriented society is always, What next?"

"I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist."

"How valuable NBC Magazine was in my career is questionable."

"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."

"Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience."

"I can't tell a joke to save my soul. It's just not my thing, though I love to listen to jokes."

"I struggled for a while, but when I was cast in an Off Broadway show called 'Once Upon a Mattress,' that kind of put me on the map."

"I do think there are some great female comics: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph. They're the whole ball of wax."

"When I left 'The Garry Moore Show,' I signed a 10-year contract with CBS."

"Kristin Wiig I think is brilliant."

"Adolescence is just one big walking pimple."

"Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own."

"A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic."

"Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense."

"All colours are arbitrary."

"Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship."

"It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science."

"Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective."

"The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition."

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