The teacher of historys work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being. – William Irwin Thompson
The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply. – Christopher Hitchens
When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence. – Samuel Butler
