People who think there is something pedestrian about journalism are just ignorant.

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

It was a good moment, the kind you would like to press between the pages of a book, or hide in your sock drawer, so you could touch it again.

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

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

It is easy to be liked when the world has no jagged edges, when life is electric blankets and peach ice cream. But to be beloved, a man needs a dragon.

It is a common condition of being poor...you are always afraid that the good things in your life are temporary, that someone can take them away, because you have no power beyond your own brute strength to stop them.