It's that enthusiasm, that passion for what you're doing, that is most important.
There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.
I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think.
America is a great story and there is a river on every page of it.
TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air.
I think I'd have done better if I had been a little more relaxed-if I had not pressed quite so hard, if I'd not lost quite so much sleep.