When you're working well, you don't do research. Whatever you need comes to you.

A new reader shouldn't be able to find you in your work, though someone who's read more may begin to.

Whenever citizens are seen routinely as enemies of their own government, writers are rountinely seen to be the most dangerous enemies.

And so do people pass out of one's life and all you can remember of them is their humanity, a poor fitful thing of no dominion, like your own.

A book begins as a private excitement of the mind.

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.