It?s not that the other teams start shooting, we allow the other teams to get into it. For some reason, we become content with being up. We have breakdowns, turnovers, mistakes that you can?t have against any team.

We're finally playing some good basketball. We need to take this game and move forward into a postseason berth.

Of all Americans who have appeared on the nation's postage stamps, Ayn Rand is probably the only one to have thought that the United States government has no business delivering mail.

I put a little more leg into it, and snapped my wrist a little more.

I think that the worst form of naivete can be extreme cynicism. If you think that nobody comes to Washington to do any good whatsoever, that is almost as bad as being starry-eyed and thinking that they are all here to advance democracy.

I often tell people who want to write historical fiction: don't read all that much about the period you're writing about; read things from the period that you're writing about. There's a tendency to stoke up on a lot of biography and a lot of history, and not to actually get back to the original sources.