My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do.

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

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.

Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people.... We are a nation rich in rivers.

What is it that binds us to this place as to no other? It is not the well, or the bell, or the stone walls, or the crisp October nights or the memory of dogwoods blooming. Our loyalty is not only to William Richardson Davie though we are proud of what he did 200 years ago today. Nor even to Dean Smith, though we are proud of what he did last March. No, our love for this place is based on the fact that it is as it was meant to be, the University of the people.

You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.

I much preferred the peaceful life on the road, where I didn't have to ask embarrassing questions and do all the things real reporters have to do.