Ninety-eight percent of American homes have TV sets, which means the people in the other 2% have to generate their own sex and violence.

The American people, taken one with another, constitute the most timorous, sniveling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goose-steppers ever gathered under one flag in Christendom since the end of the middle ages

Sometimes, it's hard to tell people what to do.

It sounds funny to say it, but when I was getting ready to try out, I was thinking that I really wasn't going to have to work that hard to be what I needed to be - flirtatious, outgoing, crazy and fun.

For the entire state of Georgia, having the première of Gone With the Wind on home ground was like winning the Battle of Atlanta 75 years late.

When I first began working on my Lincoln book, nearly a decade ago, he generously invited me to his home so I could peruse his fabulous Lincoln library. He sat with me for hours, suggesting which sources were the most important to begin my journey.