Ambition Quote by Thomas Mallon

“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

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

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

I actually think that 'Bandbox,' by far the silliest of my books, is the best constructed of them.

— Thomas Mallon

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“[Voltaire] was generally unbedeviled by any foolish consistency.”

— Thomas Mallon