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

History is everything that has ever happened.

It would not be possible to praises nurses too highly.

American corporations hate to give away money.

In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries you have these great nation states hurling their young men at one another. The victory was really going to rest on who could do the best job of bringing up their kids to become efficient and effective soldiers. That's pretty grandiose, I guess, but I do think that, and thank God it's been the armies of democracy that have emerged from this as the triumphant armies.

I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.

Nixon regarded himself as having been cheated by life. He never got my vote.