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

“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.”

“Her sanity was perhaps an unwarranted assumption.”

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

“First initiative, then life.”