Longevity conquers scandal every time.

The Civil War defined us as what we are and it opened us to being what we became, good and bad things... It was the crossroads of our being, and it was a hell of a crossroads.

A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.

I've never known, at least a modern historical instance, where the truth wasn't superior to distortion in every way.

I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears.

My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels.

I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including the rhythms of prose.