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Pilgrims who are looking for a cure are soon looking for a curio.

I did three tours in Vietnam. I guess a total of about almost two years.

Killing is the payoff of war.

I really feel stateless, which is not bad, because I always felt a man without a country was not encumbered by narrow loyalties.

It is always disarming to treat with the enemy, so to speak.

Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids.

I would trust citizen journalism as much as I would trust citizen surgery.

If you want to look at a cheap shot, look at Mr. Koons's or Mr. Gober's art. By no definition is it art.

What does it say about us that people who are considered defective are instinctively caring and compassionate?

No great pastry chef has sweet teeth.

What has reality shows got to do with reality? It is beyond unreality; there is nothing real about it.

Arrogance and snobbism live in adjoining rooms and use a common currency.

I really don't care what movie stars have to say about life.

Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.

I don't see myself as a Luddite.

Kids' views are often just as valid as the teachers'. The best teachers are the ones that know that.

I really don't like being on television. It makes me uneasy. It is not natural to be talking to a piece of machinery. But the money is very good.

The Republicans learned well from Bill Clinton.

When I grow up, I want to have an exhibit called 'American Motel.'

You can never have enough garlic. With enough garlic, you can eat The New York Times.

McNamara's plea was that he had no idea that Vietnam had a history of longing for self-determination, a history of resisting foreign invasion.

I believe in playing petanque with a certain kind of panache - even if you're winning, you take a risk.

For the most part, I think American armies are awfully good in the business of protecting civilians, of not going over the line.

The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share on a regular basis.

Clinton's pardoning of Marc Rich was off-the-wall.

You can be a great president and be ridden with flaws. Of course we know that.

We are on Sunday night because that is where they put us 30-odd years ago. I think we became a habit.

In his lifetime the great French impressionist painter Corot painted 2000 canvases. Of that number, 3000 are in the United States.

In many ways when Jerry Ford pardoned Nixon, in a certain way, he did speak for the country.

I have no desire to put my feet up. Why would I?

I am not in this business as a calling. I don't do what I do to right any wrongs.