Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people. They nourish and refresh us and provide a home for dazzling varieties of fish and wildlife and trees and plants of every sort. We are a nation rich in rivers.

I didn't know what narcissism was until I beheld my own naricssus.

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

There is melancholy in the wind and sorrow in the grass

When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods covering something unimportant, which was more interesting to me.

It is liberalism, whether people like it or not, which has animated all the years of my life. What on Earth did conservatism ever accomplish for our country?

There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.