I never got away from the war. Not because I was obsessed with it in those years, but because it was the event of my generation and I started out covering it so I stayed with it.

These men were wrongfully rejected, the veterans. The fighting man should never have been blamed for Vietnam.

The unthinkable occurred: two communist countries went to war with each other.

We thought that whatever we wanted to do was right and good, simply because we were Americans, and we would succeed at it because we were Americans.

I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war.

Just because you put higher-octane gasoline in your car doesn't mean you can break the speed limit. The speed limit's still 65.

We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded.

At least I'm at peace with myself. I have done my best to write a book about what really happened there and why it happened and it's done, it's published. I won't write another book on Vietnam.

It’s quite possible that mortality is simply the result of poor education.

I don't believe I've ever truly appreciated flowers before tonight.

I was raised by a mother who told me I was great every day of my life.

Progress not perfection.

The most difficult thing about being well known? Getting out of a hotel room at 4am.

True Joy is not the absence of pain but the sanctifying, sustaining presence of the Lord Jesus in the midst of the pain

The wish of peeking at women showering is also a kind of romance.

You can say that climbers suffer the same as the other riders, but they suffer in a different way. You feel the pain, but you're glad to be there.

The women went berserk, to the accompaniment of 'When a Man Loves a Woman.' It was all bass and drums; the musical equivalent, Anna decided, of cheap aftershave.

I have the motto that says, 'Whatever you see in your closet that you like, pick it and wear it.' It's not just your closet, but just your life. Whatever catches your eye. Pick it.