Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends.

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.

You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.

One can show no greater respect than to weep for a stranger.

I am no God. I am no Messiah. I am no divine incarnation. I am but a human in the service of humans.

All Children Have Brain Damage!

I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.

Computer science really involves the same mindset, particularly artificial intelligence.

When I go out, I hope to leave the worst of myself at home.

I've never understood this puritanical idea that feminism has to be a cult. You know, we all have to think alike or dress alike or have a similar ideology.

I had popcorn all over the place, so I decided I might as well be in the Processing Business.

Among my friends love is a payment. It is an old debt for a borrowing foolishly spent.