I Try To Be As Ruthless As

The Coconut Trees, Lithe And Graceful, Crowd The Beach Like A Minuet Of Slender Elderly Virgins Adopting Flippant Poses.

Actors Who Have Tried To Play Churchill And Macarthur Have Failed Abysmally Because Each Of Those Men Was A Great Actor Playing Himself.

His [gen. Douglas Macarthur's] Own Heroes Were Lincoln And Washington, And In Some Ways He Resembled Them. Like Them, He Was Slandered And Misunderstood.

I Came To A Dead Stop And Began Major Revisions. Sometimes These Entailed The Shredding Of All Existing Manuscript For A Fresh Start - An Inefficient Way To Write A Book, Though I Found It Exciting.

His [gen. Douglas Macarthurs] Twenty-two Medals-thirteen Of Them For Heroism-probably Exceeded Those Of Any Other Figure In American History. He Seemed To Seek Death On Battlefields.