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

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.

Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will.

If pain is a pot of boiling water, humor can be the rising steam.

I really hate it when people want to kill me. It makes me think they don't want to be friends. - Raven from Blood of Prey

Sellswords put gold before honor.

Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.

It's easiest to write songs when I'm either really in love or really mad at a guy. It's just always best when I'm feeling superemotional.

That's how a good story works. It changes how you feel. It brings you to a greater appreciation, a greater joy, of your own existence.

Those who deny the right of a jury to protect an individual in resisting an unjust law of the government, deny him all defence whatsoever against oppression.

Women are complicated...not because women are crazy, but because people are crazy, and women happen to be people.

There is no hierarchy of elder knowledge in my social region of things. There are only people learning and sharing in a very complex environment.

I love telling good stories and I love playing powerful, strong women.