I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations..

Even against the greatest of odds, there is something in the human spirit - a magic blend of skill, faith, and valor - that can lift men from certain….

It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like heroes. But as a matter….

There were exceptions, a couple of families that just plain didn't want to even think about it, although forty years had passed but mostly the people….

It's a funny thing, but today the Titanic is probably much more - that is people are much more aware of it than they were in 1954, when I was doing m….

Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical c….

I never earned a dollar that was not somehow through writing..

Events alone rarely provide much guide to the future..

The ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect..

Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake..