Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter.

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

It is liberalism, whether people like it or not, which has animated all the years of my life. What on Earth did conservatism ever accomplish for our country?

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

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.

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

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