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

A staff can be no better than the man it serves.

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.

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.

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

In team sports the athletes were bonded by each other, there was an immense peer pressure to keep going. One dared not miss a practice for fear of letting his teammates down. Every time an athlete thought of getting back into bed in the morning he knew he would have to face the anger of his closest friends. But the sculler had to find motivation entirely within himself. No one else cared.

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