Read. Read every chance you get. Read to keep growing. Read history. Read poetry. Read for pure enjoyment. Read a book called Life on a Little Known Planet. It's about insects. It will make you feel better.

The great thing about the arts is that you can only learn to do it by doing it.

I feel that history is in many ways the most important of all subjects because it is about everything and because it's about who we are and how we came to be the way we are.

It was an utterly phenomenal achievement.

History isn't just what happened, but what happened to whom and why and what would have been different if the cast of characters had been different.

Read. Read. Read. Read. Read great books. Read poetry, history, biography. Read the novels that have stood the test of time. And read closely.

I love to go to the places where things happen. I like to walk the walk and see how the light falls and what winter feels like.