I can see that you [Bruce Cole] are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a different time: What's the same and what's different?

From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice. I read a lot of things, but history had a special appeal for me.

History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.

Without history we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were born.

We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from the Greeks and the Romans. One of them that's so striking is the whole area of politics.

War has been more common than peace, and extended periods of peace have been rare in a world divided into multiple states

You have to liberate yourself first from the prejudices of the world in which you live.

'Maybe you out to go back there.' 'Can't. Gotta stay where... where I know what's w

You said you like it on top. I spent all day imagining it.

I may not be a politician, but I will fight to the end of my life for what I believe in.

My boyfriend is Jewish, and he calls himself a kike every five seconds.

I'm always excited to try something I haven't done.

I considered calmly that I was born to write.

Imagine living in a country where the cops are all people who're cut out for the job.

Be grateful even for hardship, setbacks, and bad people. Dealing with such obstacles is an essential part of training in the Art of Peace.

Most atheists bristle at the thought that atheism has anything to do with faith, but not Penn Jillette.

I'm a believer in the notion that artists who do good work believe in the ideas of extremes.