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"I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam."
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"If we all knew we were going to live to be 150 years old, we'd all approach our lives very differently."

"You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub."
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"The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts."

"He's only 4 years old, so I don't think he realized, you know, that I played so many years. Of course, we watch tapes here from the Stanley Cup years, but I don't think he realized how many years I played."
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"Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money."


"Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men."


"The Canadians have managed to live peacefully with their Indians. It is disgrace that the United States has not done the same."


"We are part of a country that outshines those that have gone before us and most of those in existence today."


"Eisenhower is my choice as the American of the 20th Century. Of all the men I've studied and written about, he is the brightest and the best."


"Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?"
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