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

Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.

I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.

I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it.

New York is the true City of Light in any season.

I 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.

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