It was like that afore you got here, it’s like that now, and it’s going to be like that when you and me are gone, departed and left, and so there is only one rule, swing with it and smile.
If youre a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.
Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.
One of the things I learned, the easiest of lessons, was that the better you do your job, often going against conventional mores, the less popular you are likely to be.
I have a great faith in the strength and the resilience in the American people.
This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.
The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong.
With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it’s much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than a serious novelist.
Few sports has as great a disparity between the time committed in practice and time actually spent in game or race conditions.