I remain the luckiest guy I know.

Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from the top down.

We were not just competitors and colleagues, we were friends. We had a lot of opportunities to reflect on this in the last year. It was a competitive brotherhood.

It doesn't do any good to wire the world if we short circuit the soul.

It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced.

Washington tends to be full of too many traps. I think reporters there do a lot of attending news briefings and news conferences expecting to get the real news out of those relatively sterile environments. But you've got to deal with the obscure people as well as the names.

The Warmth of Other Suns is a sweeping and yet deeply personal tale of America's hidden 20th century history - the long and difficult trek of Southern blacks to the northern and western cities. This is an epic for all Americans who want to understand the making of our modern nation.