I've got so many ideas, and sometimes the more exhausted my body gets, the more active my mind gets.

History is a set of skills rather than a narrative.

[Margaret] Thatcher could fake her class background, but she couldn't fake the quality of her mind.

Insight cannot be taken back. You cannot return to the moment you were in before.

I spend a lot of my time talking to the dead, but since I get paid for it, no one thinks I'm mad.

In terms of essays, I would say Oliver Sacks. His breadth of hard knowledge and imagination and empathy seems to constitute the perfect mind to me.

He thinks, I remembered you, Thomas More, but you didn't remember me. You never even saw me coming.