I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season.

When I select a topic, it's usually a commitment of two to three years of my life

I am grateful to Stacy Schiff first of all because she can write a sentence-because she offers us her scholarship with wit, clarity, and grace. Once again, she has done what only the best writers can do: she has made the world new, again.

What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative

The goofiness of radicals thinking they have to dress in Guatemalan peasant clothes. The poor don't want you to look like them. They want you to dress in a suit and go get them food and water. Comma.

I wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam.

I do believe that enduring geological features are important, though I don't think I can be clear about exactly why.