David Drake Quotations

We have made a firm decision to join Community Speed Watch which we hope will help to reduce the speed of traffic driving down that road.

He will be intensely involved in the book writing process.

Clapton is 60 and happily married and he feels very good about his life, and feels ready to look back in an honest way, warts and all,

Dylan's is the kind of model we envisioned, and in the same way we see this book bringing out the distinct voice of Eric Clapton. He will be intensely involved in the book writing process.

We didn't realize what we were giving up. We thought we were going to a better opportunity, but we didn't realize how good we had it.

He's currently working on it. And we'd like to have it as soon as possible.

Nothing’s boring if it’s in your soul…

The use of force is always an answer to problems...[It] isn't an attractive answer, though.

The use of force is always an answer to problems. Whether or not it's a satisfactory answer depends on a number of things, not least the personality of the person making the determination. Force isn't an attractive answer, though. I would not be true to myself or to the people I served with in 1970 if I did not make that realization clear.

History was a series of decisions about what to tell and a series of accidents about what survived after telling. Not truth, but a historian could search for truth, and the search was as worthy as any other human activity.