When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.

I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.

Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean.

The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.

I don't think there's any doubt that we're going in, ... And I don't think there's any doubt over the eventual resolution to the war. But there's no way to handicap a war. All these talking heads that are saying it's going to be a short tactical thing, how do they know? Back in 1991 they said it was going to be a long drawn-out thing.

The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.