I spent my entire childhood in an environment in which the mighty of the earth had no place outside story books and dreams.

Love of, and respect for, the humble routine of everyday life and its creatures was the only moral commandment which carried conviction when I was a child.

I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.

My thoughts fly to the old Icelandic storytellers who created our classics, whose personalities were so bound up with the masses that their names, unlike their lives' work, have not been preserved for posterity.

I had really great parents who always gave me lots of opportunity for choice, but I didn't always realize how rare that was for a girl for them to say, 'You can be a mom or have a career or do both or do something we haven't thought of yet.'

I’m much more aware of how distraught my father could be internally. That was normal to me - the obsession with work, the crazy hours - and when I watch it on screen I really see how enveloped he was by show business to the point where he didn’t develop much of another life. Everything was show business to him."

It's really important to find a humble approach to your own creative work, your own business work. To recognize that you can't do everything yourself.

Chicago, with its big newspapers and major broadcasting stations, couldn't have been a better city to start a journalism career.