Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation.

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.

I'm a survivor, " I said. But I didn't think that claim would carry much weight in an obituary.

Leave it to a vampire to think a healthy guy in his late thirties or early forties was on his deathbed.

Don't be afraid of failure because failure can help you achieve your goals.

I'd rather hurt than feel nothing at all.

At last God caught his eye.

Ignorance is bliss. Wisdom is blisters.

A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could.

I'm always looking for that movie that feels like it's hitting me where I need it.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

I wanted to seem completely invisible but whenever you're saying someone else's words and relaying the story of someone else's life, it's not you.