I'm not any kind of social reformer.

I'm not knocking the wholesale grocery business or any other, but there is a kind of romance in journalism which some people, the lucky ones, feel inside them all their lives.

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.

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.

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.

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

It's that enthusiasm, that passion for what you're doing, that is most important.