Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story. – Bob Woodward
In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry. – Norman MacCaig
If someones going to talk about me, Id want it to be positively. The way many write, youd think only bad things were interesting. If we dont think positive, whats the use? Its a lot more fun, you know. – Dorothy Stratten