The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.
Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.
Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man.
Telephone operators recognize my voice before I give my name, and say, 'Sock it to Kilpatrick.'
'60 Minutes' was a disaster for me because it made everybody think that I was the house liberal of CBS, which is the part that I was playing. It was fun for a while.
Before I ever heard about '60 Minutes,' I had been a writer, a columnist for 'Life' magazine and for 'Newsweek' - that was about as high as you could get in column writing. I care about my writing. I'm not a quack-quack TV journalist.
What troubles me is not that movie stars run for office, but that they find it easy to get elected. It should be difficult. It should be difficult for millionaires, too.
I have been active as a writer and journalist for nearly forty years. But the number of great reporters I have run across in that time would make, as they say, a slim book. Without question, the top man on my list would be Tommy Thompson.