“Her sanity was perhaps an unwarranted assumption.”

“The use of force is always an answer to problems...[It] isn't an attractive answer, though.”

“History was a series of decisions about what to tell and a series of accidents about what survived after telling. Not truth, but a historian could search for truth, and the search was as worthy as any other human activity.”

“She owned the roadas an elephant owns the veldtand like a big blue elephantmoved with massive graceand dignity.”

“The most important thing of all was not the poverty of its essence, but that it was there.”

“Nothing’s boring if it’s in your soul…”

“First initiative, then life.”