TV journalism is a much more collaborative, horizontal business than print reporting. It has to be, because of the logistics. Anchors are wholly dependent on producers to do all the hustling.
I use a Blackberry. I'm so behind on mobile communication technology, I think a smartwatch may be too far a leap.
I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics.
Each of us has a vital role to play in building a world in which the government and technology serve the world's people and not the other way around.
My father made false teeth. Unfortunately, during the Depression, not many people could afford them, and my parents lost their home.
At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.
I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.
What I have always liked about Brighton is its impersonality. Since the 18th century, people have come, used the place and gone home again.
Working in an office with an array of electronic devices is like trying to get something done at home with half a dozen small children around. The calls for attention are constant.
Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
There are so many things that come into writing a recipe, and it's really important if you're writing for home cooks to be cooking like you are at home.
The reason why there is more pessimism about technology in Europe has to do with history, the use of databases to keep track of people in the camps, ecological disasters.
There may be something to the suggestion about the pace of technological change intimidating writers, though - it's been awfully hard to keep ahead of real developments.
Christmas was the one time of year when my brothers surfaced at home, when my parents and grandparents congregated to eat my mother's roast turkey.
My mother was a not-too-devoted atheist. She went to Episcopal church on Christmas Eve every year, and that was mostly it.
When I was a child, I was living in the housing projects of Philadelphia. I didn't even have a Christmas tree.
You have to remind kids to stay connected to the meaning of Christmas. Sometimes it takes a little bit of effort, but it's so worth it.
I think the people who are making Christmas-themed movies today feel that people are more cynical about Christmas. There's more of an edge.
A barn with cattle and horses is the place to begin Christmas; after all, that's where the original event happened, and that same smell was the first air that the Christ Child breathed.
Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.
'Make your plate look like a Christmas tree,' I tell people, 'mostly green with splashes of other bright colors.'
