My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my fa….

You can find your way across this country using burger joint the way a navigatior uses stars....We have munched Bridge burgers in the shadow of the B….

I didn't like the competitiveness of big-time journalism..

It's that enthusiasm, that passion for what you're doing, that is most important..

If there are bleachers in heaven and a warm sun, that's where you'll find Bill Veeck..

I don't think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures..

Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just ….

I much preferred the peaceful life on the road, where I didn't have to ask embarrassing questions and do all the things real reporters have to do..

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..

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..

America is a great story and there is a river on every page of it..

What I learned on the road. Above all else - to love my native land..

The greatest thing you can do in life is to tell a young boy or girl that they're 'the very best' at something - baseball, reading, art. That gives t….

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 think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them..

It takes an earthquake to remind us that we walk on the crust of an unfinished planet..

There is melancholy in the wind and sorrow in the grass.

It is liberalism, whether people like it or not, which has animated all the years of my life. What on Earth did conservatism ever accomplish for our ….

The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege..

When I was a little boy I used to borrow my father's hat, and make a press card to stick in the hat band. That was the way reporters were always port….

Kids are always asked, What are you going to be when you grow up? I needed an answer. So instead of saying, a fireman, or a policeman, I said, a repo….