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

Look for joy in your life; it's not always easy to find.

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

When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods covering something unimportant, which was more interesting to me.

The storytelling tradition that you bring from the South, I don't know where it arose, but it's still there. You can't go to the feed store, or the country courthouse without running into storytellers.

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.

Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.