A true Southerner will never say in 2-3 words what can better be said in 10-12.

TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air.

I started out thinking of America as highways and state lines. As I got to know it better, I began to think of it as rivers.

It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself.

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

Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.

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