The greatest thing you can do in life is to tell a young boy or girl that they're 'the very best' at something - baseball, reading, art. That gives them the wonderful feeling that they can do anything, which they can!

The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any way.

That was the overwhelming thing to me, the joy of carrying my portable typewriter to an event and trying to describe it.

I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling.

Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people. They nourish and refresh us and provide a home for dazzling varieties of fish and wildlife and trees and plants of every sort. We are a nation rich in rivers.

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 don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong.