The flame is not out, but it is flickering.

Civics is in fact politics, and politics is how things work not only in the political realm but in every other realm. It may be this simple mechanical glitch that unites everything. This is my philosophy.

There are no ordinary lives.

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.

Write: write letters. Keep journals. Besides your children, there is no surer way of achieving immortality.

The way I work, the interview never becomes larger than the person being interviewed.

Nothing in our daily life offers more of the comfort of continuity, the generational connection of belonging to a vast and complicated American family, the powerful sense of home, the freedom from time's constraints, and the great gift of accumulated memory than does our National Pastime.