I Still Think About That One Jamiroquai

When I Do Research, I Have Done - 90 Percent Of My Time Is The Research, The Other Ten Percent Is The Writing. So I Don't Have To Face A Blank Piece Of Paper. I Can Look At This As A Quote That I Have From Somewhere.

When You Are An Historian, There's Probably Nothing That Matters More Than To Be Recognized By Your Colleagues In Your Own Profession. I Was Lucky Enough To Win The Pulitzer Prize For History. I Had To Give A Talk Right After That To Some Young People. The Most Important Thing To Tell Them, I Think, Is That You Can't Ever Know That It's Going To Turn Out That Way.

Lincoln Had Internalized The Pain Of Those Around Him-the Wounded Soldiers, The Captured Prisoners, The Defeated Southerners. Little Wonder That He Was Overwhelmed At Times By A Profound Sadness That Even His Own Resilient Temperament Could Not Dispel.

I've Been To The White House A Number Of Times.

There Are 20,000 Million Books I Could Have To Read, But I Can Pick The Ones And Know That I'm Learning Something That I Didn't Know Before. That's The Glory Of Writing. It's Not Even So Much The Writing, It's What You Learn - Especially History - Because So Much Of It Is Research.