Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a wonderful way to live one's life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7.

You know, most reporters can't go back to the towns they wrote stories about. I never wrote that kind of story.

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

I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.

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.

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

Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a wonderful way to live one's life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7.