America Is A Great Story

I Used To Think That Driving, Sleepless, Ambitious Labor Was What You Needed To Succeed.

Tv Critics, Who Traditionally Hate Television And Make Their Living Writing About It, Often Didn't Like What I Did On The Air.

The Mississippi River Carries The Mud Of Thirty States And Two Provinces 2,000 Miles South To The Delta And Deposits 500 Million Tons Of It There Every Year. The Business Of The Mississippi, Which It Will Accomplish In Time, Is Methodically To Transport All Of Illinois To The Gulf Of Mexico.

It Takes An Earthquake To Remind Us That We Walk On The Crust Of An Unfinished Planet.

The Storytelling Tradition That You Bring From The South, I Don't Know Where It Arose, But It's Still There. You Can't Go To The Feed Store, Or The Country Courthouse Without Running Into Storytellers.