“The facts are always less than what really happened.”

“Are you a hero, actually?”“Um, no. Not as such. Not at all, really. Even less than that, in fact.”

“in Detroit, in July of 1967, what happened was no less than a guerrilla uprising.The Second American Revolution.”

“...in autobiography, as in all literature, what actually happened is less important than what the author can manage to persuade his audience to believe”

“It's very tempting when you really want to be with someone to settle for much, much less -- even a vague pathetic facsimile of less -- than you would have ever imagined. Remember always what you set out to get and please don't settle for less. These guys exist because there are a lot of women out there who allow them to.”

“It’s not: I jumped in, and it was cold. No. It was cold, and I jumped in. Always arrange a sentence so you appear to be fearless, when in fact you are far less than fearless—you are clueless.”