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.

A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's terribly troubling to me.

Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.

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

I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.

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.