Every leader operates under the threat of assassination.

I didn't cry much after I was 35, but staggered stony-faced into middle age, a handkerchief still in my bag just in case.

Every leader operates under the threat of assassination.

I would have been a disaster as a career politician. I would never have toed a party line.

If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay or a poem. Be flexible.

I loved Gore Vidal's Burr. That book gave me courage.

History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.