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.

If there are bleachers in heaven and a warm sun, that's where you'll find Bill Veeck.

I started out thinking of America as highways and state lines. As I got to know it better, I began to think of it as rivers.

That was the overwhelming thing to me, the joy of carrying my portable typewriter to an event and trying to describe it.

I don't think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures.

You know, most reporters can't go back to the towns they wrote stories about. I never wrote that kind of story.

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