I'm Not Any Kind Of Social Reformer.

I Would Like To Explore Some Side Roads In Life While I Am Still In Good Health And Good Spirits.

I Don't Know What Makes A Good Feature Story. I've Always Assumed That If It Was A Story That Interested Or Amused Me, That It Would Have The Same Impact On Other People.

It Was So Much Fun To Have The Freedom To Wander America, With No Assignments. For 25 Or 30 Years I Never Had An Assignment. These Were All Stories I Wanted To Do Myself.

My Parents Encouraged Me In Everything I Ever Wanted To Do.

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.