I have spent a good part of my life looking for the perfect barbecue. There is no point in looking in places like Texas, where they put some kind of ketchup on beef and call it barbecue. Barbecue is pork, which narrows the search to the South, and if it's really good pork barbecue you are looking for, to North Carolina.

It was cold out there, bitter, biting, cutting, piercing, hyperborean, marmoreal cold, and there were all these Minnesotans running around outdoors, happy as lambs in the spring.

You know, most reporters can't go back to the towns they wrote stories about. I never wrote that kind of story.

I'm not any kind of social reformer.

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.

In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality.

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