The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong.
David HalberstamThis was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.
David HalberstamThere are only two kinds of stories in the world: those about which I do not care to write as many as 600 words, and those about which I would like to write many more than 600 words. But there is nothing about which I would like to write exactly 600 words.
David Halberstam