“History must repeat itself because we pay such little attention to it the first time.”

In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.

I strongly reject threats by any member state to destroy another or outrageous attempts to deny historical facts such as the Holocaust.

A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.

Actually, the only thing I regret is not making more underground films and bringing them with me as historical documents.

I thought I wanted to be a performing and recording artist, and played many recitals and performances beginning in the 1970s. In the 1980s I went to the British Library and ordered and received reels of historical women and men keyboard composers, and thus was born Vivace Press.

It is wiser, I believe, to arrive at theory by way of evidence rather than the other way around…. It is more rewarding, in any case, to assemble the facts first and, in the process of arranging them in narrative form, to discover a theory or a historical generalization emerging of its own accord.

Religion has really spawned some monsters. It always has, historically. Go all the way back to the Inquisition, you know, the Crusades, the Jehad and so on.

There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.