I love all sides of the work but that doesn't mean it isn't hard.

I've always been dissatisfied, I know that. But lately I find that I reek of discontentment. It fills my throat, and it floods my brain. And sometimes I fear there is no longer a dream, but only the discontentment.

You've got to marinate your head, in that time and culture. You've got to become them." (Speaking about researching, and reading, and immersing yourself in History)

I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities.

A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.

My love is to tell a story but I like stories that evolve from character, from the nature of the individuals involved.

To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.