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" 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. "

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" I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn't time enough to read everything I wanted to read. "

" I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it. "

Falling In Love

" 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. "

" We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune. "

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

" It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth. "

" For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy. "

" 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. "

" Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students. "

" Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship. "

" It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals. "

" I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society. "

" I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time. "

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

" The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. "

" I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading. "

" Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything. "

" I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed. "

" I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong. "

" Look for joy in your life; it's not always easy to find. "

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

" I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air. "

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

Competitiveness

" 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. "