America is a great story and there is a river on every page of it.

It takes an earthquake to remind us that we walk on the crust of an unfinished planet.

It's that enthusiasm, that passion for what you're doing, that is most important.

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.

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.

We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.

I much preferred the peaceful life on the road, where I didn't have to ask embarrassing questions and do all the things real reporters have to do.