I like talking. I didn't know at the time I would have to worry so much about my hair.
I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation.
I get involved in the beginning, less in the middle, and very much at the end.
I don't think it's about entertainment. I think it's about being ourselves.
An investigation may take six months. A quick interview, profile, a day.
People tend to vote the present tense - not the subjective.
I've always been curious. I keep a list of people I'd love to have lunch with, like the Pope or Leonard Cohen. I'll read an article about someone I've never met and think, 'I should ask him to lunch!'
Sometimes I forget some of the things I've done. I recently recalled that after Watergate I went away by myself to Tahiti for a month, moving from island to island. That was a point in my life where I didn't know what was next.
I get to go to work and come home with something interesting or enriching or astonishing.