“I'm a bad man. I need to understand the past. It illuminates the present.”
“I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand.”
“The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding.”
“I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about history, we automatically understand a great more about contemporary life.”
“You have to know the past to understand the present.”
“I’m a one-man show. I need to start a band. You wanna join? Too bad! What about one-man band don’t you understand?”