Bobby Kennedy's conduct toward Lyndon Johnson was childish and despicable. As the years went on, he displayed nasty, self-pitying, and messianic qualities that would have made him a dangerously authoritarian president. — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
Nixon had been to China. He had been to Russia doing arms negotiation. And so, he was on his way toward what happened in November, which was an electoral win with 49 states. And the sheer unnecessariness of the Watergate… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
“he’d spent his whole life trying to make God love him—and that this didn’t matter in the slightest. All that mattered was that he… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
Cell phones, alas, have pretty much ruined train travel, which I used to love. I could read or even sketch notes for what I… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
My prescription for writer's block is to face the fact that there is no such thing.... Writing well is difficult, but one can always… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
My house in Connecticut is very quiet, and when I'm trying to concentrate, I don't even allow the cat inside my second-floor study. — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
I actually think that 'Bandbox,' by far the silliest of my books, is the best constructed of them. — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
Bobby Kennedy's conduct toward Lyndon Johnson was childish and despicable. As the years went on, he displayed nasty, self-pitying, and messianic qualities that would… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
The Czech Republic, severed from its old Slovak half, sits in apparent landlocked contentment, inside the European Union but outside the troubled Euro Zone,… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
One decision I made in writing 'Henry and Clara' was that I would keep Lincoln's appearances and any dialogue by him to an absolute… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
American secretaries of state have typically been more buttoned up than bon vivant, but John Quincy Adams's diplomatic successes - bigger than anything presidential… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
I was raised - and still consider myself to be - Catholic, though I'm non-practicing and haven't fulfilled my Easter duty since sometime during… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
I think that the worst form of naivete can be extreme cynicism. If you think that nobody comes to Washington to do any good… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
I remember from my academic days, there were people who could never begin writing because they hadn't read every single thing on their subject,… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
