"We do things with a wink and a nod. If you don't include yourself in the critique, you have no business doing it." "Going gray is like ejaculating: you know it can happen prematurely, but when it does it comes as a total shock." "I very much do not want to become what I used to make fun of. The newscaster on The Simpsons sadly is not that far off from what you see out there". "I've always loved reporting from the field most of all. There's something about doing live TV and being there as it happens that's always appealed to me. I think there's great value to bearing witness to these events as they're actually happening." "When the war in Iraq began I was anchoring the overnight coverage for CNN. Your teleprompter is blank and you have four hours to fill, and it can be a very long night if you don't know your stuff. I like that challenge." "I am sort of drawn toward places in the world where there is struggle and conflict." "Anyone who has experienced a certain amount of loss in their life has empathy for those who have experienced loss." "Obviously I was well aware that I had what people consider a privileged upbringing. My mom was never a bake-cookies sort of mom. I really had no reins whatsoever." "If I'm hip, we've got a problem in this country. I really shouldn't be held up as any model of hipness. If anything I think I'm sort of old school in my approach to objective reporting and not wearing my opinion on my sleeve. There's a lot of that in American TV news these days. Too much, in fact." "When I was younger, I talked to the adults around me that I respected most about how they got where they were, and none of them plotted a course they could have predicted, so it seemed a waste of time to plan too long-term. Since then I've always gone on my instincts."