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

For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself. So they were always about somebody I like, 'cause if I didn't like him, I just didn't do the story. And to have somebody else paying the bills for this tourism, to every corner of every stage, over and over again? Why, who wouldn't want a job like that?

What I learned on the road. Above all else - to love my native land.

I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society.

I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.

There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.

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.