The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any way.

Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a wonderful way to live one's life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7.

I don't know what makes a good feature story. I've always assumed that if it was a story that interested or amused me, that it would have the same impact on other people.

...Pomeranians speak only to Poodles and Poodles speak only to God.

The Mississippi River carries the mud of thirty states and two provinces 2,000 miles south to the delta and deposits 500 million tons of it there every year. The business of the Mississippi, which it will accomplish in time, is methodically to transport all of Illinois to the Gulf of Mexico.

The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any way.

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