"Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast ..." — Charles Kuralt

When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.

You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.

Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a wonderful way to live one's life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7.

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.