“It really is brilliant news that historians can just never get things right.”
“News is nothing but words, and you can never really tell if words are news.”
“History is gossip that's been legitimized, and that's really the case when you get into some of the Roman historians. Wow! They'd be right at home on reality tv.”
“The only business of the historian is to relate things exactly as they are: this he can never do as long as he is afraid”
“Things are never really falling apart; they’re just sort of getting reorganized.”
“Never get attached to possessions…. They’re just things and you can always get more things.”