My first book was the book that changed my life.

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.

It is worth starting with visions, though, because they establish hopes and fears. History then determines which prevail.

The sound of the rain faded away and she kissed him, letting herself be as honest as she'd wanted to be, letting her kiss speak for everything she was afraid to say with words.

...when the room goes silent, someone has spoken with authority...

When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences.

For me the curse is a crutch, but the con is everything.

When you cross the line and you've won the race, to me, it's an amazing feeling.

Time is short. We have at most a decade to sharply reverse course.

If you get the access to see history happen, do you understand the history when it does happen? And the answer to that question is no, you dont.

If you were dead," Owen told her, "you'd have bigger problems than what you were wearing.

Real value isn’t in what you own, drive, wear or live. The greater value is found in love and life, health and strength, friends and family!