My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do.
America is a great story and there is a river on every page of it.
I didn't know what narcissism was until I beheld my own naricssus.
I didn't like the competitiveness of big-time journalism.
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.
What I learned on the road. Above all else - to love my native land.