You never heard anybody ask 'Elvis who?'

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

I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think.

The Mississippi River carries the mud of thirty states and two provinces 2,000 miles south to the delta and deposits 500 million tons of it there every year. The business of the Mississippi, which it will accomplish in time, is methodically to transport all of Illinois to the Gulf of Mexico.

That was the overwhelming thing to me, the joy of carrying my portable typewriter to an event and trying to describe it.

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 never heard anybody ask 'Elvis who?'