Tony Hillerman Quotes

I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war.

Whether you go to Turkey or Mexico, China or Australia, find time to involve yourself with the people you're dealing with.

I was not able to stop or slow down the Vietnam War.

Very few people are fortunate enough to walk through countries like Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia, and I had seen them all. I had spoken to many on the street.

I did three tours in Vietnam. I guess a total of about almost two years.

Oh, it's essential. I mean, you have to - if I'm writing about the Middle East, I have to go there, and if possible, stay long enough to get a real feeling for what's going on.

I spent some time back in Mexico at 16 because my parents thought it would be prudent for me to learn Spanish, because I held a Mexican passport.

I'm very curious about the world, foreign cultures.

One of the aims of higher education is to broaden perspectives, and what better way than by a home stay in a really different country, like Bangladesh or Senegal? Time abroad also leaves one more aware of the complex prism of suspicion through which the United States is often viewed.

I have gotten to travel the world and experience all these incredible things thanks to my career.

The U.S. dropped more high explosives on Vietnam than the Allies used on Germany and Japan together in the Second World War.

My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India.

'Slumdog' was my first movie, and I had never been to India before - I was just a teenager in the U.K. with my headphones and my Nike shoes. What did I know about growing up in a slum?

One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you'd see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.

I have been to several wars to draw. I went to Vietnam. And made drawings in Vietnam during that period of the war there, and found that to be a very very sad situation.

I was lucky enough to have parents that took me out from country to country and go to school and learn how to be a better person.

I always spend time exploring the customs and attitudes of the countries I'm using for locations, and interviewing the people who live there. I've visited over 90 countries thus far.

But so far as countries are concerned, I don't go to a place to see what's there, but who is there.

An English man does not travel to see English men.

Many people don't know, but American Girl Scouts get to travel the world, and that's a very good thing, as the more we can expose our young people to other cultures, the better off we'll be in this increasingly globalized environment.

In the '50s, I was traveling alone all over Mindanao, Basilan, all the way to Tawi-Tawi with just a camera and a notebook. I always stayed in the houses of Moros.

In 2003, as a 21-year-old convert to Islam, I moved from Colorado to Cairo to see what life was like in a Muslim country.

Word War III is about to start and we cannot change the position on Vietnam.

The Russians feared Ike [Eisenhower, in Korea]. They didn't fear me [in Vietnam].

Over time the maintenance of U.S. credibility quietly supplanted the stated policy objective of a free and independent South Vietnam.