What I learned on the road. Above all else - to love my native land.

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.

What I learned on the road. Above all else - to love my native land.

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

There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority.

I don't think one should ever come to my stage of life and have to look back and say, Gosh. I wish I hadn't spent all those years doing that job I was never really interested in.

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.