A good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious.

At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly.

It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him.

I can look at my books with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close enough.

Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been.

Death is as casual and often as unexpected as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.

Mulligan: invented by an Irishman who wanted to hit one more twenty yard grounder.