A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards.

War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off.

Family life is an encroachment on private life.

I have to do this, as long as it is at all possible; for if those who are obliged to look after commas had always made sure they were in the right place, then Shanghai would not be burning.

To me it's still a greater miracle when a fly flies than when a human being undertakes to do so.

Speech is the mother, not the handmaid, of thought.

Many share my views with me. But I don't share them with them.