"Dance was the only thing I wanted to do. We're always in pain, but we knew what caused the pain, so it was good pain. So when a dancer complains that it hurts, that's all right. They know why it hurts. You suffer the hurt because the passion says you must do this. If you don't have that passion, take up plumbing or do something else."
"I always hated the idea of the 'get', because 'get' became the story. It didn't matter what I asked you, what we talked about or what we learned, it was 'I got you and he didn't.' We often chased after somebody who wasn't worthy of a story, and it obscured genuine news that wasn't getting covered. I didn't like seeing people who were great journalists obligated to chase after stupid stories just because they were the hot 'get'. And it's still going on."