That's what the American odyssey is really about: Leaving home. Leaving home and coming home, and trying to understand the difference.

That's what the American odyssey is really about: Leaving home. Leaving home and coming home, and trying to understand the difference.

You can make a new friend but you can't make an old one.

Kids in Alaska don't know they're growing up on the Last Frontier. It's just what they see on the license plates, and it's something tourists like to say a lot because they've never been around so many mountains and moose before.

For some people, you know, Garrison Keillor, Rush Limbaugh, really the stars, they've got a passion. They eat, drink and breathe radio, and I'm not like that. I used to think I wanted to be. But I need to be away from it, too, and that's the difference, I think.

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

In the America I see from here, anything is possible - especially the impossible.