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

You know, most reporters can't go back to the towns they wrote stories about. I never wrote that kind of story.

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 would like to explore some side roads in life while I am still in good health and good spirits.

I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.

I didn't have the ambition to be a broadcaster. I was going to be a newspaper reporter the rest of my life, but that opportunity came along.

I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.