I became a marine mom with the signing of a paper, but it would take a phone call, late one night, for me to fully absorb the impact this new title would have on my life.

For every wounded warrior, there is a myltitude of family, friends, and communities who are forever changed.

In 1963, while my brothers were engaged in their lives, I call this period of my life 'my character-building years.' I adhered to the saying, 'When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

You find my words dark. Darkness is in our souls, do you not think?

You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job.

I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up.

That sinuous southern life, that oblique and slow and complicated old beauty, that warm thick air and blood warm sea, that place of mists and languor and fragrant richness.

The endings for all my characters seem sufficiently human and messy for me to feel comfortable with them. In some ways they have only moved an inch, but sometimes an inch is a great distance.

I still don't like going to bed alone.

It is in the nature of human beings to bend information in the direction of desired conclusions.

I, like most people, came out to Hollywood to get into movies.

All political activity must serve and promote the good of the human person and be based on respect for his or her dignity.