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

It's that enthusiasm, that passion for what you're doing, that is most important.

You never heard anybody ask 'Elvis who?'

A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's terribly troubling to me.

In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality.

Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter.

Often I have been exhausted on trout streams, uncomfortable, wet, cold, briar scarred, sunburned, mosquito bitten, but never, with a fly rod in my hand have I been less than in a place that was less than beautiful.