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

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.

It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself.

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

I was on the high school track team, believe it or not, and played baseball, poorly but passionately.

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