I get in trouble when I say things like, 'I'm attracted to violence.' I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.
“I always work from an outline, so I know all the of the broad events and some of the finer details before I begin writing the book.”
“I thought Nixon was the worst President we had ever had, save only perhaps Andrew Johnson.”