With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than a serious novelist.

Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.

One of the things I learned, the easiest of lessons, was that the better you do your job, often going against conventional mores, the less popular you are likely to be.

What looked safe was not safe. What looked hard and unsafe was probably safer. Anyway, safe was somewhere else in the world.

I have a great faith in the strength and the resilience in the American people.

Being a professional means doing your job on the days you don't want to do it

The most dangerous thing about power is to employ it where it is not applicable.

A staff can be no better than the man it serves.

Nixon, who spent much of his career attacking the press and saying he was a victim of the press, was in fact created by the press, in this case the L.A. Times.

The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong.

Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty.

Why do beautiful women love ugly men?

Assassins: they got sass and live on sin.

Information is information, not matter or energy.

PLATONIC, adj. Pertaining to the philosophy of Socrates. Platonic Love is a fool's name for the affection between a disability and a frost.

If your hand doesn't work for it, your heart doesn't feel sorry for it.

Each time I visit Japan, I am reminded of how Canadian I am and how little racial connection matters.

If you are trying to impress a woman, leave any sort of show farting out of the equation.

I see you lying next to me, with words I thought i'd never speak, awake and unafraid, asleep or dead?

I've always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I'm feeling in the moment.

Books are, let's face it, better than everything else.