Charles Kuralt

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.

I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think.

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.

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.

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

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

I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.

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 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 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.

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.

I'm not any kind of social reformer.