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You can't go by what things look like on paper.

A barrier is of ideas, not of things.

Most biographers are apt to be discouraged by the sheer volume of papers left behind by their subject.

Anything on paper is obsolete!

The only protection as a historian is to institute a process of research and writing that minimizes the possibility of error. And that I have tried to do, aided by modern technology, which enables me, having long since moved beyond longhand, to use a computer for both organizing and taking notes.

I've been with the paper for almost 30 years.

Research is not an obstacle, something to be frightened of. It can be one of the real joys of writing.

Sometimes things just fall out of your head on the paper, and if you're smart, you learn not to touch them.

I can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to get something down on paper.

The four walls of paper are like a prison because every idea wants to spring out in all directions - everything is connected with everything else, sometimes more than others.