The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.

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'm not any kind of social reformer.

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.

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

It is liberalism, whether people like it or not, which has animated all the years of my life. What on Earth did conservatism ever accomplish for our country?

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