He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] never went to church, but he read the Bible every day and regarded himself as one of the world's two great defenders of C….

Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself..

It is true that despite occasional gleams of Churchillian eloquence he [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] usually spoke poorly. He was far more effective in co….

But there are no loners. No man lives in a void. His every act is conditioned by his time and his society..

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 thi….

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..

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 a….

An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome..

A man's task is to find himself, and if he fails in this, it doesn't much matter what else he finds..

The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses..

His [Gen. Douglas MacArthurs] twenty-two medals-thirteen of them for heroism-probably exceeded those of any other figure in American history. He seem….

It was his [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] relationship with the administration In Washington which became poisoned by his egomania. Link upon link the bo….

I realized that the worst thing that could happen to me was about to happen to me..

The sum of a million facts is not the truth..

To the medieval mind the possibility of doubt did not exist..

One strange feeling, which I remember clearly, was a powerful link with the slain, particularly those that had fallen within the past hour or two. Th….

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….

His [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] own heroes were Lincoln and Washington, and in some ways he resembled them. Like them, he was slandered and misunderst….

They fought on with a devotion which would puzzle the generation of the 1980s. More surprising, in many instances it would have baffled the men they ….

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….

The colors of the underwater rock [are] as pale and delicate as those in the wardrobe of an 18th-century marchioness..