Charles Kuralt

When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods covering something unimportant, which was more interesting to me.

TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air.

There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority.

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.

My parents encouraged me in everything I ever wanted to do.

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 father.