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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Passion is something you really don't miss, after it has cooled. It is like looking at an empty bottle on the side of the road and thinking, "Boy, I wish I had a Coke." The loves you miss are the ones that go away when they are still warm, even hot, to the touch.