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

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.

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.

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.

To hell with pleasure that's haunted by fear!

Power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

I don't miss playing football, but I do miss going into the dressing room every day and having a laugh.

He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.

All the best bands have a language, and what they say within that language makes it is what it is.

I love you. I love you, but I’m turning to my verses and my heart is closing like a fist.

Far worse it is, To lose than never to have tasted bliss.

It is not the imitation that makes sons; it is sonship that makes imitators.

Perhaps the bleakest fact of all is that the death penalty is imposed not only in a freakish and discriminatory manner, but also in some cases upon defendants who are actually innocent.