“When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt.”
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Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.
My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak.
The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.
In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know.