“You are not just a photojournalist, you’re a historian.”

There was nobody else around, and I made my first frame, and I forgot to focus the camera. The second frame was a little more in focus… then just for a second, while everything was open, the busboy looked up, and he had this look in his eye.

There in front of me was the Senator on the floor being held by the busboy.

I think what makes a picture is a moment that is completely spontaneous and natural and unaffected by the photographer.

The historian records, but the novelist creates.

John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he’s regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship.

That means there’s also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good is a matter for future historians of the field.

And one of the historian’s jobs is to anticipate what our perspective of that period will be… even on the Holocaust.

An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.

Every real poem is the breaking of an existing silence, and the first question we might ask any poem is, What kind of voice is breaking silence, and what kind of silence is being broken?

Ultimately a historian has to put together a cohesive work.

Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.