I gained a great appreciation for what I would call the collective achievement of the country. I began thinking of America as a much more just and humane place than I would have thought if I'd been covering the civil rights struggle.

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

Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.

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

I don't think one should ever come to my stage of life and have to look back and say, Gosh. I wish I hadn't spent all those years doing that job I was never really interested in.

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

My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father.