Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.

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

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.

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

I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time.

A true Southerner will never say in 2-3 words what can better be said in 10-12.

I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.