People can burn archives; people can destroy evidence, but to say that history is perishable, that historical evidence is perishable, is different than saying that history is subjective.

I like to think that one of things I've done with non-fiction since the very beginning is to find new ways of telling true stories.

The pursuit of truth, properly considered, shouldn't stop short of insanity.

I've had people turn me down. Not all that many, but certainly it happens.

Those who cannot condemn the past repeat it in order to remember it.

You can talk about a caption underneath a photograph being true or false, because there is a linguistic element. You can claim that a photograph is a picture of a horse or a cow, but it is the sentence that expresses the claim, which is true or false, not the photograph.

The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.