Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money.

In one of his last newsletters, Mike Ranney wrote: "In thinking back on the days of Easy Company, I'm treasuring my remark to a grandson who asked, 'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?' No,'" I answered, 'but I served in a company of heroes.

Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of.

Like their predecessors, the Presidents of today just throw up their hands.

There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors.

The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.

In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries you have these great nation states hurling their young men at one another. The victory was really going to rest on who could do the best job of bringing up their kids to become efficient and effective soldiers. That's pretty grandiose, I guess, but I do think that, and thank God it's been the armies of democracy that have emerged from this as the triumphant armies.