You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.

Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people.... We are a nation rich in rivers.

It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth.

I was on the high school track team, believe it or not, and played baseball, poorly but passionately.

I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.

The storytelling tradition that you bring from the South, I don't know where it arose, but it's still there. You can't go to the feed store, or the country courthouse without running into storytellers.

If there are bleachers in heaven and a warm sun, that's where you'll find Bill Veeck.