History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

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

Read. Read every chance you get. Read to keep growing. Read history. Read poetry. Read for pure enjoyment. Read a book called Life on a Little Known Planet. It's about insects. It will make you feel better.

You can't learn to play the piano without playing the piano, you can't learn to write without writing, and, in many ways, you can't learn to think without thinking. Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.

No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.

Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.

He had kept his head, kept his health and his strength, bearing up under a weight of work and worry that only a few could have carried.