And still I wander, seeking compensation in unforseen encounters and unexpected sights, in sunsets, storms and passing fancies.

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

I don't think one should ever come to my stage of life and have to look back and say, Gosh. I wish I hadn't spent all those years doing that job I was never really interested in.

I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn't time enough to read everything I wanted to read.

When I was a little boy I used to borrow my father's hat, and make a press card to stick in the hat band. That was the way reporters were always portrayed in the movies.

I started out thinking of America as highways and state lines. As I got to know it better, I began to think of it as rivers.

There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.