"I was inspired to write a folk song — about how soldiers have no choice in the matter but to follow orders — but with…"

"And it's one, two, three, what are we fighting for? Don't ask me I don't give a damn Next stop is Vietnam. And it's f…"

"Now come on mothers throughout the land Pack your boys off to Vietnam Come on fathers don't hesitate Send your sons o…"

"I know myself well enough to be positive that I couldn't have lived through a whole year, or even a whole week, witho…"

"Harold was tops as a cavalier; every day he sent me more gardenias than most people go to the grave with."

"What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liqu…"

"The women who take husbands not out of love but out of greed, to get their bills paid, to get a fine house and clothe…"

"Your heart often knows things before your mind does, and I think from this time on, psychologically speaking, I was a…"

"I was just recalling the pet saying of an old madam named Vicki Shaw." "Oh? And what was that?" "Too many cooks," I s…"

"In 1943 fear that the German war machine might use s was abating and among s another fear was taking its place - that…"