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I'm not any kind of social reformer.
You never heard anybody ask 'Elvis who?'
Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.
New York is the true City of Light in any season.
There is melancholy in the wind and sorrow in the grass
Look for joy in your life; it's not always easy to find.
Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.
I didn't like the competitiveness of big-time journalism.
The reality of any place is what its people remember of it.
My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do.
I didn't know what narcissism was until I beheld my own naricssus.
America is a great story and there is a river on every page of it.
...Pomeranians speak only to Poodles and Poodles speak only to God.
What I learned on the road. Above all else - to love my native land.
We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.
There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.
A true Southerner will never say in 2-3 words what can better be said in 10-12.
It's that enthusiasm, that passion for what you're doing, that is most important.
I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.
I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.
If there are bleachers in heaven and a warm sun, that's where you'll find Bill Veeck.
It takes an earthquake to remind us that we walk on the crust of an unfinished planet.
I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.
You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
I would like to explore some side roads in life while I am still in good health and good spirits.
The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.
The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.
I was on the high school track team, believe it or not, and played baseball, poorly but passionately.
Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people.... We are a nation rich in rivers.
The sparrows are preparing for winter, each one dressed in a plain brown coat and singing a cheerful song.
I don't think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures.
I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.
You know, most reporters can't go back to the towns they wrote stories about. I never wrote that kind of story.
I made friends with a lot of those who could have criticized me in print and who didn't, who praised me instead.
I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society.
That was the overwhelming thing to me, the joy of carrying my portable typewriter to an event and trying to describe it.
It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth.
I started out thinking of America as highways and state lines. As I got to know it better, I began to think of it as rivers.
TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air.
I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling.
I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think.
And still I wander, seeking compensation in unforseen encounters and unexpected sights, in sunsets, storms and passing fancies.
In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality.
The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any way.
I suppose I was a little bit of what would be called today a nerd. I didn't have girlfriends, and really I wasn't a very social boy.
Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.
I had a tight stomach all the time. I actually developed ulcers. I've learned better than to put all that internal pressure on myself.
I did stories about unexpected encounters, back roads, small towns and ordinary folk, sometimes doing something a little extraordinary.
I think I'd have done better if I had been a little more relaxed-if I had not pressed quite so hard, if I'd not lost quite so much sleep.
I didn't have the ambition to be a broadcaster. I was going to be a newspaper reporter the rest of my life, but that opportunity came along.