Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money.

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.

My generation must have despair. - Leonard Bernstein Ch 40/Dog Water Free, A Memoir

Strength is leading when you just don't want to lead.

Intelligence is present everywhere in our bodies . . . our own inner intelligence is far superior to any we can try to substitute from the outside.

Due process and judicial process are not one and the same, particularly when it comes to national security.

Hot oil! We need hot oil!... Forget the water balloons!

I was young and stupid then. Now I'm not young anymore.

A deer that knows all the hunting techniques of a lion will never fall prey to a lion!

Stars in the night,' he said. 'Something something something something, some delight

Most of the women I saw on TV didn't seem like people I actually knew. They felt like ideas of what women are.

Negativity spreads faster than any Justin Bieber song.