"My own time is passing fast enough without some national game to help it along."

"Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose."

"People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe."

"When those waiters ask me if I want some fresh ground pepper, I ask if they have any aged pepper."

"At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck."

"I could write historical fiction, or science fiction, or a mystery but since I find it fascinating to research the clues of some little know period and develop a story based on that, I will probably continue to do it."

"Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story."

"I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it."