Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.

I didn't like the competitiveness of big-time journalism.

My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do.

I'm not any kind of social reformer.

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

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.

In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality.