I'm not a representative of the military establishment. I came in with the Reagan Administration in 1981 as a presidential appointee.

I think the important point is the turning point in combining offense and defense in a reasonable way.

I don't like the word nuclear exchange, it's like an exchange of wheat and so on. It's a horrible term and I always cross it out when I see it somewhere.

There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot, and then somebody steals your pencil.

My freshness is spending its wavering shower in the dust.

He who rules by moral force is like the pole star, which remains in place while all the lesser stars do homage to it.

The only person who can, with impunity, make the movie he wants to make, has got to be Steven Spielberg.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

I don't want to live in a hand -me -down world of others' experiences. I want to write about me, my discoveries, my fears, my feelings, about me.

As a child, I could beat most kids in sprints, but overall, wrestling was the most natural sport for me. In fact, I was a pretty good high school wrestler. I was unusually quick and strong.

Tragedy, as you know, is always a fait accompli, whereas terror always has to do with anticipation, with man's recognition of hisown negative potential--with his sense of what he is capable of.

Diamonds are a girls bestfriend

The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by them.