To rush in upon an event before its significance has had time to separate from the surrounding circumstances may be enterprising, but is it useful? ... The recent prevalence of these hot histories on publishers' lists raises the question: Should - or perhaps can - history be written while it is still smoking?

The Germans could not get over the perfidy of it. It was unbelievable that the English, having degenerated to the stage where suffragettes heckled the Prime Minister and defied the police, were going to fight.

The costliest myth of our time has been the myth of the Communist monolith.

Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced

I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning to the end.

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

The better part of valor is to spend it learning to live with differences, however hostile, unless and until we can find another planet.