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

I didn't know what narcissism was until I beheld my own naricssus.

New York is the true City of Light in any season.

A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's terribly troubling to me.

I have spent a good part of my life looking for the perfect barbecue. There is no point in looking in places like Texas, where they put some kind of ketchup on beef and call it barbecue. Barbecue is pork, which narrows the search to the South, and if it's really good pork barbecue you are looking for, to North Carolina.

It was cold out there, bitter, biting, cutting, piercing, hyperborean, marmoreal cold, and there were all these Minnesotans running around outdoors, happy as lambs in the spring.

America is a great story and there is a river on every page of it.