We were intimidated when we came up here. We had a little fear in our hearts and you can't do that.

She might have been my best defender there inside dragging a bad leg. I was happy for her. She got some good minutes and played well.

Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.

Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.

America is an archipelago of tribes, a land where people form national families of kindred spirits.

I think of America not so much as a single country but as a constellation of groups out there competing for air time, energetically expressing themselves and luxuriating in their right to govern themselves. Freedom is that great vaunted word that's always applied to our country - and rightly so.