My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father.

I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society.

Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper.

The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

When I was a little boy I used to borrow my father's hat, and make a press card to stick in the hat band. That was the way reporters were always portrayed in the movies.