Like their predecessors, the Presidents of today just throw up their hands.

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’ve learned a hundred secrets, a thousand mysteriesand a million more.But of all the lessons I learned, the greatest is love.

Be careful who you choose as your enemy because that's who you become most like.

If people knew where the sounds in Jurassic Park came from, it'd be rated R!

I don't think contemporary writers spend a lot of time reading each other. Particularly writers of the same nationality.

It is impossible to worship God and remain unchanged

Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.

What you have inherited from your forefathers, it takes work to make it your own.

Helsinki isn't all that bad. It's a very nice city, and it's cold really only in wintertime.

As long as the fans were happy, I knew I'd had a good night, and it didn't really matter what anuone else thought.

The office of reformer of the superstitions of a nation is ever dangerous.