I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.

You know, I think I still have a sense that no matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much success you have, no matter how much money you have, relationships are important.

I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at an early age.

There was no one around me who didn't work hard.

I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.

The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month.

That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into.