The Sum Of A Million Facts Is

He [gen. Douglas Macarthur] Was A Great Thundering Paradox Of A Man, Noble And Ignoble, Inspiring And Outrageous, Arrogant And Shy, The Best Of Men And The Worst Of Men, The Most Protean, Most Ridiculous, And Most Sublime.

But There Are No Loners. No Man Lives In A Void. His Every Act Is Conditioned By His Time And His Society.

I Try To Be As Ruthless As Possible. I Ask Myself Of Each Sentence, "is It Clear? Is It True? Does It Feel Good?" And If It's Not, Then I Rewrite It.

Men Do Not Fight For Flag Or Country, For The Marine Corps Or Glory Or Any Other Abstraction. They Fight For One Another. And If You Came Through This Ordeal, You Would Age With Dignity.

Japanese Naval Officers In Dress Whites Are Frequent Guests At Pearl Harbor's Officers' Mess And Are Very Polite. They Always Were. Except, Of Course, For That Little Interval There Between 1941 And 1945.