A shrewd person would one day start a religion based on coincidence, if he hasn't already, and make a million.

The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the victim and his history. This sustained Oswald in his cell. It gave him what he needed to live. The more time he spent in a cell, the stronger he would get. Everybody knew who he was now.

Everything's a scandal. Dying's a scandal. But we all do it.

I've always felt that my subject was living in dangerous times.

War is the form nostalgia takes when men are hard-pressed to say something good about their country.

What good is knowledge if it just floats in the air? It goes from computer to computer. It changes and grows every second of every day. But nobody actually knows anything.

I am very unmusical. I can't carry a tune. I would never be able to play an instrument.