I think the feature reporter often walks a very thin line between a truly human story and one that slops over into mushiness or sentimentality.
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 would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think.
I don't think one should ever come to my stage of life and have to look back and say, Gosh. I wish I hadn't spent all those years doing that job I was never really interested in.
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.
I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed.
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 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.