An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.

Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at Pearl Harbor's officers' mess and are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for that little interval there between 1941 and 1945.

I try to be as ruthless as possible. I ask myself of each sentence, "Is it clear? Is it true? Does it feel good?" And if it's not, then I rewrite it.

I realized that the worst thing that could happen to me was about to happen to me.

The colors of the underwater rock [are] as pale and delicate as those in the wardrobe of an 18th-century marchioness.

He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] was a great thundering paradox of a man, noble and ignoble, inspiring and outrageous, arrogant and shy, the best of men and the worst of men, the most protean, most ridiculous, and most sublime.

An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.