I mean to retire, where nobody will have heard about my special skills. And conversation is mainly about the weather.

Determination in spite of the challenge makes us stronger.

In her room death would come as a friend, a friend with cool gentle hands . . .

There is no moon. The stars have risen and fallen and given way to a new spread, to the smeared heart of our Milky Way.

The stars in the sky are immeasurable.

There is nothing finer in history than Thomas at Chickamauga.

Ever since I've become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washington Post, The Detroit News, and all of them could have been written by the same person

An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly, and at great length.

I notice people that look good.