“You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.”
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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 think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.
The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.
I suppose I was a little bit of what would be called today a nerd. I didn't have girlfriends, and really I wasn't a very social boy.