For a long time, I've been interested in cultural memory and historical erasure.
The 1930s had been a time of tremendous economic distress. And the unemployment rate was enormously high by any historic standard.
Historically, more people have died of religion than cancer.
Christianity is a very historical religion - it makes specific claims that are open to testing.
You think, 'Musicals, they must always be romantic' - You'd be surprised how few of them historically have ever been romantic.
It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of historical study, since it gained a place analogous to that of natural science.
Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres.
The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind.
Teachers don't tell us the truth about historical people. If we knew the truth, parents couldn't hold their lives up as examples.
I am not someone who believes I am going to find a historical scoop.
Most architects work in studios largely divorced from academia, as if ideas, criticism and historical research were irrelevant.
The memory of the Second World War hangs over Europe, an inescapable and irresistible point of reference. Historical parallels are usually misleading and dangerous.
Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
We apply law to facts. We don't apply feelings to facts.
Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would somehow arrange themselves in a compelling and true solution.
Actors don't, in fact, retire, do they? It took me a while to remember that.
I've played a lot of cops. In fact, my father was a cop.
The equatorial line is, in fact, the centre of atmospheric motion.
The world appears rectilinear, but is in fact curvilinear - a literal truth in physics, and a metaphorical one in metaphysics.
Religion is a reassurance - in fact, that's its only purpose.
I don't mind being single. In fact, I like it.
