A 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.

What I learned on the road. Above all else - to love my native land.

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

I'm not knocking the wholesale grocery business or any other, but there is a kind of romance in journalism which some people, the lucky ones, feel inside them all their lives.

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

I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think.

I'm not any kind of social reformer.