I watched a lot of movies. I was deeply influenced by movies..

Most things don't work like they are supposed to work..

I am at my best when I am scoring..

Every decoding is another encoding..

Everything was believed except the truth..

The work that I'm proudest of is the work that I'm most afraid of..

I was physically abused and I retaliated..

Meow, Meow, Motherfucker..

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.

The only rule is there's only one rule: no rules..

I am not a historian. I don't see what I do as being a rival to biography..

From time to time historians need to be shocked..

Study the historian before you begin to study the facts..

History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another..

I worked for a brief spell as a journalist, but soon I discovered that I didn't want to be a journalist - I wanted to be a historian..

Women have their uses for historians..

The duty of a historian is simply to understand and then convey that understanding, no more than that..

The historicity of Christ is as axiomatic for an unbiased historian as the historicity of Julius Caesar..

History was a series of decisions about what to tell and a series of accidents about what survived after telling. Not truth, but a historian could se….

It is the job of the historian to say what is likely, and of faith to say what is possible..

The historian's one task is to tell the thing as it happened..