You can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past. They lived in the present. It is their present, not our present, and they don't know how it's going to come out. They weren't just like we are because they lived in that very different time. You can't understand them if you don't understand how they perceived reality.

I feel that history is in many ways the most important of all subjects because it is about everything and because it's about who we are and how we came to be the way we are.

We must not think of learning as only what happens in schools. It is an extended part of life. The most readily available resource for all of life is our public library system.

However little television you watch, watch less.

Nothing ever invented can you a bigger life than a book.

My love is to tell a story but I like stories that evolve from character, from the nature of the individuals involved.

To write is to think, and to write well is to think well.