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

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

I think I'd have done better if I had been a little more relaxed-if I had not pressed quite so hard, if I'd not lost quite so much sleep.

When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods covering something unimportant, which was more interesting to me.

I think the feature reporter often walks a very thin line between a truly human story and one that slops over into mushiness or sentimentality.

I had a tight stomach all the time. I actually developed ulcers. I've learned better than to put all that internal pressure on myself.

When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.