I really hate those books where the murderer turns out to be somebody you never heard of who pops up in the last chapter.

Logic is a wonderful invention. It is so wonderful, people often mistake it for reason. Reason, however, requires sense. Logic requires only consistency.

If you don't burn the candle at both ends, what's the candle got two ends for?

The Internet makes it possible for people like me to live the way I do now. Without it, I'd have to be in New York or some other city. I think the Internet is the greatest invention in history after antibiotics.

People always seemed to know half of history, and to get it confused with the other half.

Everybody is a True Believer. Everybody has a little nugget they're convinced of that is the opposite of the nugget on the other side. And they're convinced it's fact.

I'd like to write a history, maybe of the Reformation.