Unlike most fine writers, he wasn't in love with his own words.

Politicians wanted to mine the Grand Canyon for zinc and copper, and Theodore Roosevelt said no.

I learned more about history and literature in the used bookstores in DC than in college libraries.

Hurricane Katrina is without question the worst natural disaster in American history.

John Kerry wants to be the hero in his own drama. He likes King Arthur and the Round Table. He likes the young swashbuckling Churchill, and he loved the early antics of Theodore Roosevelt.

I think Ronald Reagan is what happened....The age of Reagan brought conservatism into the mainstream....It also brought us the beginning of the new media-talk radio, the internet, cable television.

I have a lot of books I want to write.

Over the past four decades no reporter has critiqued the American South with such evocative sensitivity and bedrock honesty as Curtis Wilkie.

Animals interest me more than anything else.

If you're a Kennedy and you go to Italy or you go to Argentina, you're treated as royalty. And in the United States, we're endlessly fascinated by the family.

I feel like I'm always learning from people.

Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

Never underestimate wisdom in silence, proof isn't always a mouthful of words.

A thousand goodbyes come after death - the first six months of bereavement.

The women that I met were exceptional, extraordinary - tremendous purity, tremendous gentleness, self-giving and power.

Well I was an asthmatic child. So that for most of my childhood I was in bed. Bedridden.

Many of the qualities that come so effortlessly to dogs - loyalty, devotion, selflessness, unflagging optimism, unqualified love - can be elusive to humans.

Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty.

From the first time I held an iPhone, the space has evolved quickly, and people have shifted from reading content on their desktops to smartphones and iPads, even long-form stuff.

My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.

A man who's intoxicated all the time doesn't need sympathy.