By the end of the summer of 1973 I thought it was virtually impossible for South Vietnam to survive. How in the heck could they?

I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.

It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation.

Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there.

We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.

Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.

War is fear cloaked in courage.

Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.

They're asking women to do impossible things. I don't believe women can carry a pack, live in a foxhole, or go a week without a bath.

This was a type of war that we'd had no experience with before. Some of our policies were kind of trial and error in character.

We have reached an important point when the end begins to come into view.

Bigheadedness is usually a symptom of small-mindedness.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

To fly/steal is woman’s gesture, to steal into language to make it fly.

Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.

Hip-hop is always moving. It's always looking for the next style; it's always trying to one-up the last person.

I don't think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little.

I am on the longest, craziest journey of my life and loving every minute of it! Who would have known a few plants would take you around the world!

Everyone knows there's only one thing less welcome on a stage than a mime, and that's a clown, because everyone knows that clowns eat people.

I think it's important to keep the audience interested. But the best advice that I've gotten is to live in the moment. Sometimes you can get too into your head when you're in a scene.

My rhymes are gonna kill, so I suggest you write your will and leave your [expletive] to me.