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

May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.

Unlike the people you see in Mathew Brady's photographs from the Civil War, the men and women of the Revolution seem more like characters in a costume pageant. And it's a pageant in which the performers are all handsome as stage actors, with uniforms and dress that are always costume perfect.

Little children can learn anything, just as they can learn a foreign language. The mind is so absorbent then. There ought to be a real program to educate teachers who want to teach grade school children about history.

There's no such thing as a foreseeable future.

I love all sides of the work but that doesn't mean it isn't hard.

People are so helpful. People will stop what they're doing to show you something, to walk with you through a section of the town, or explain how a suspension bridge really works.