If there is anything that is important to America, it is that you are not a prisoner of the past.

QUESTION: Do you know what the greatest test is? ANSWER:Do you still get excited about what you do when you get up in the morning?

With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than a serious novelist.

Nixon, who spent much of his career attacking the press and saying he was a victim of the press, was in fact created by the press, in this case the L.A. Times.

Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.

The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong.

One of the things I learned, the easiest of lessons, was that the better you do your job, often going against conventional mores, the less popular you are likely to be.