I think it's best to pick a biographical subject who lives to a ripe old age. Older people tend to relax and speak their minds. They're dropping some of the masks that they've been wearing. There's a candor.

The great thing about the arts is that you can only learn to do it by doing it.

Read somewhat in the English poets every day. You will find them elegant, entertaining and constructive companions through your whole life.

It would be the most crucial day of the entire war.

I love to go to the places where things happen. I like to walk the walk and see how the light falls and what winter feels like.

Every book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project.

There are no people on earth in whom a spirit of enthusiastic zeal is so readily kindled, and burns so remarkably, as Americans