I liked Los Angeles for odd reasons. For one, there was no sense of community. You were really left to your own resources, spending this inordinate amount of time alone in a balloon of an automobile. I liked that a lot.
More Quotes by John Gregory Dunne
You do nonfiction, you get to meet people you would not normally meet.
I got 'The Red White and Blue' out of journalism. It puts you in touch with the world.
An Episcopalian military institution when it was founded near the turn of the century, Harvard for years had an implicit quota system that effectively limited the number of Jewish admissions.
The volunteer military has always been most enthusiastically, even devoutly, embraced by those who would not themselves dream of volunteering - or of encouraging their children to do so.
Unlike Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods, Jackie Robinson never tried to convert himself into an acceptable black man.
What is astonishing about the social history of the Vietnam war is not how many people avoided it, but how many could not and did not.