Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.

I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam.

The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.

Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.

Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life.

The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed.

Eisenhower had the clearest blue eyes. He would fix them on you. In my every interview with him, he would lock his eyes on to mine and keep them there.

Nothing is inevitable in life. People make choices, and those choices have results, and we all live with the results.

I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.

It is through history that we learn who we are and how we got that way, why and how we changed, why the good sometimes prevailed and sometimes did not.

My favorite book is the last one printed, which is always better than those that were published earlier.

If you're always following the crowd, you will never truly know who you are. Walk your own path.

I would not mind being a bit evil, for the larger good.

A boy cannot begin playing ball too early. I might almost say that while he is still creeping on all fours he should have a bouncing rubber ball.

The proper direction of man's thought is not toward the creation of new laws for government, but toward the acceptance of every person's moral dignity.

Western man, especially the Western critic, still find it very had to go into print and say: "I recommend you to go and see this because it gave me an erection."

It is wonderful, if we chose the right diet, what an extraordinarily small quantity would suffice.

Anything said in upper-crust British automatically sounded intelligent.

Self-realization is a process of permanent auto-creation, an elaboration of the new man at the expense of the old.

I wondered if she'd ever written on her notebook: GEB + NUT = TRUE LOVE or MRS GEB.

Those, that with haste will make a mighty fire, Begin it with weak straws.