Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a reporter.
Charles KuraltA 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.
Charles KuraltThat was the overwhelming thing to me, the joy of carrying my portable typewriter to an event and trying to describe it.
Charles KuraltI used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.
Charles KuraltI 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.
Charles KuraltI have spent a good part of my life looking for the perfect barbecue. There is no point in looking in places like Texas, where they put some kind of ketchup on beef and call it barbecue. Barbecue is pork, which narrows the search to the South, and if it's really good pork barbecue you are looking for, to North Carolina.
Charles Kuralt