The men in Vietnam weren't allowed to fight the war with any kind of concern to win by the government. It was like a war of attrition.

I would never run for president.

My life has always been chaotic. From the time I got dressed in the back of a deflated, flat-tired, fish-smelling station wagon for Rocky. It's always been do it yourself, kind of like paper-clip it together.

I respect a woman too much to marry her.

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.

I'm astounded by people who take eighteen years to write something. That's how long it took that guy to write Madame Bovary, and was that ever on the best-seller list?

When life hits you pretty hard, you can go into a dark corner.