I have always had a strong interest in history and finding out about the past can be remarkably helpful with working out the future, too.

Since God is silent, man is his own master; he must live in a disenchanted world, submit everything to criticism, and make his own way.

Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word.

To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just a terrible creature but somebody with whom you disagree.

My definition of modernism took a while to develop.

My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right.

People seem to forget that one reason they are now thinking differently is Freud's legacy itself.

The ideas of theologians are refuted by their adversaries, the ideas of scientists are refuted by their followers.

And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by understanding them psychoanalytically.

With the passage of years, not all of Dicken's readers remained infatuated with his pathos. One generation's sublimity became another generation's kitsch.

What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism.

What a failure her life had been. Would she have lied to God if she’d had more faith, been more righteous? How could she possibly have a son at her age? And yet, if she had believed all along . . .

One day she asked me: "Is this love?" I said: "If this is not love, then love is nothing!

...there is nothing so dangerous in its consequences as injustice to individuals- whether it arise from prejudice of color or from any other source

Fly free with me.

Education is a slow moving but powerful force

I love you. Most ardently.

I believe in collaboration. I think that is the most entertaining and effective way to write for me, personally.

Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.

Marketing is not inherently bad. That's just dumb. That's said by somebody that isn't doing enough work.

To the hard-working people who set a little bit aside each month, to provide for their children, or to fund their own retirement, I say: you should be rewarded not punished.