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

I don't know what makes a good feature story. I've always assumed that if it was a story that interested or amused me, that it would have the same impact on other people.

I would like to explore some side roads in life while I am still in good health and good spirits.

New York is the true City of Light in any season.

Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.

The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any way.

I started out thinking of America as highways and state lines. As I got to know it better, I began to think of it as rivers.