America, the Idea of: We yearned for its beer and jazz, its smoke-filled nightclubs, its Edward Hopper bars, the melancholy of rainy Manhattan Gershw…

- Michael Bywater

Ideally, you should be your own hero, just as I am mine.

- Michael Bywater

Primate books are good for us. They remind us that we're primates, too. And the embarrassing primate books are best. Macachiavellian Intelligence is …

- Michael Bywater

One of the rules of history is that people do not write about what is too obvious to mention. And so the information, having never been recorded, is …

- Michael Bywater