“Don’t ever wrestle with a pig. You’ll both get dirty, but the pig will enjoy it.”

“Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.”

“I remembered something my first partner had told me. Never wrestle with a pig, Lindsay. You both get dirty. The pig likes it.”

“I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it.”

“Perhaps the main reason America cannot 'get over' its war with Viet Nam is that Americans cannot fit what happened into its earlier myth of itself—that we had always been 'the good guys,' conquering injustice around the world. The tens of thousands of mistreated half-American children born in Viet Nam are one untidy fact we have been unable to fit into that myth.”

“When you get in the mud with a pig, you get dirty and the pig gets happy.”

“It would be a stronger world, a stronger, loving world, to die in.”