The worst thing to happen to Lincoln - aside from the unfortunate incident at Ford's theatre - was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg.

In matters of faith, inconvenient evidence is always suppressed while contradictions go unnoticed.

Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.

To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil.

The American vice is explanation.

There is something about the state putting the power to bully into the hands of subnormal, sadistic apes that makes my blood boil.

I started to read my first book at about the age of six. I started to write a book simultaneously. Not to compete, just to augment. And that's how one starts. Or I started.