There is melancholy in the wind and sorrow in the grass

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

I didn't like the competitiveness of big-time journalism.

I think the feature reporter often walks a very thin line between a truly human story and one that slops over into mushiness or sentimentality.

To read the papers and to listen to the news... one would think the country is in terrible trouble. You do not get that impression when you travel the back roads and the small towns do care about their country and wish it well.

Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.

It takes an earthquake to remind us that we walk on the crust of an unfinished planet.