Momma kept a garden, which sounds romantic to people who have never held a hoe

I believe that if we are going to write about life and death, we should not do it from the cheap seats.

These were people... who built redwood decks on their mobile homes and have no idea that smart-aleck Yankees think that is somehow funny. People of the pines. My people.

I don't think there's a difference between writing for a newspaper or magazine and doing a chapter in a book.

The Haitians, who knew something about suffering and survival, had a beautiful phrase... The Translation is not perfect, but the nut of it was: 'The season of pain is never over until the sky begins to cry.

I made some friends for life, the way I usually make them. Any jackass can be pleasant company, but if people help you when you're at your worst, that's a friend.

Most national correspondents will tell you they rely on stringers and researchers and interns and clerks and news assistants.