I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.

If there is some art involved, I'd like it to be that it came through the cracks of daily work.

Defeating fear is not a light switch. For most of us, it's daily work.

I read that piece and thought, 'I'm getting out of here,' ... I'm getting out of daily journalism because this is a level way above what I and everybody I know has been doing, and I want to try to do something like this. It's a very influential piece.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Police officers and firemen are so visible in their daily work, there's no mistaking they're there - and that presence makes people feel secure.