Over the past four decades no reporter has critiqued the American South with such evocative sensitivity and bedrock honesty as Curtis Wilkie.

If you're a Kennedy and you go to Italy or you go to Argentina, you're treated as royalty. And in the United States, we're endlessly fascinated by the family.

John Kerry can be absolutely ruthless. I would not want to be on his enemies list when he's ready to go after you.

There is nobody that's ever going to fill Ted Kennedy's shoes, and that's a tall order for somebody in the family to try to live up to.

I feel like I'm always learning from people.

Animals interest me more than anything else.

I have a lot of books I want to write.