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

The Mississippi River carries the mud of thirty states and two provinces 2,000 miles south to the delta and deposits 500 million tons of it there every year. The business of the Mississippi, which it will accomplish in time, is methodically to transport all of Illinois to the Gulf of Mexico.

I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong.

Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a wonderful way to live one's life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7.

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

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

You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.