The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.

The Canadians have managed to live peacefully with their Indians. It is disgrace that the United States has not done the same.

Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money.

We are part of a country that outshines those that have gone before us and most of those in existence today.

You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school.

Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome his power, broken his will.

Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends.