He knew that it was an uphill struggle. But he faced it with realism, courage and a firm hope that he would be one of the fortunate ones. In the end, he was not.

He faced it [his diagnosis] with realism, courage and a firm hope that he would be one of the fortunate ones. In the end, he was not.

We wanted to make sure we got back out into the field with our anchors, not just our correspondents, to do reporting. Because ultimately, it's all about reporting.

You have to praise their sense of realism, that they'll never get to a 25 percent share again. They have got to do this to survive.

As Americans, we can take enormous pride in the fact that courage has been inspired by our own struggle for freedom, by the tradition of democratic law secured by our forefathers and enshrined in our Constitution. It is a tradition that says all men are created equal under the law and that no one is above it.

If Realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see it.