Plot makes the character just as history makes the man.

The biggest impact my father had on my life was teaching the importance of literacy.

My father thought of himself as a tradesman. A craftsman.

My father valued patriotism above all other social obligations, but he had his own particular interpretation of just how true patriotism was meant to function.

My father believed, like Pericles, that a mans genius could be easily judged by the number of unenlightened fools set in phalanx against his ideas.

I started writing serious books so late because I knew Id be accused of riding on my fathers coattails.

I like writing, but I write for self-improvement more than I do for money.