I went to Europe to live in 1961. I'd never have written Julian if it hadn't been for the sequestered life that I led in Rome and the classical library at the America Academy.
I went to Europe to live in ...
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As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.
The Puritans left England for America not because they couldn't be Puritans in their mother country, but because they were not allowed to force others to become Puritans; in the New World, of course, they could and did.
The only absolute attainment is absolute abandonment.
Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.
Writing of history is our only heuristic principle. The Germans have a word for it, einfühlen. It is the ability to experience the past in the present and to recreate it. In my books, I have tried to recreate it in the most natural way possible: History must be integrated into the story without the weight of premonition.
