The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.

The Canadians have managed to live peacefully with their Indians. It is disgrace that the United States has not done the same.

Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends.

My first book was the book that changed my life.

Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will.

It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly.

I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam.