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.

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

It takes an earthquake to remind us that we walk on the crust of an unfinished planet.

I don't think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures.

I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.

I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.

I did stories about unexpected encounters, back roads, small towns and ordinary folk, sometimes doing something a little extraordinary.