There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.

The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that's least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970.

There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys.

All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development.

The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply Russia has always had too much state and not enough society.

Since the dawn of time traditional marriage - the union between one man and one woman - has been the building block of civilization and at no point in our nation's history has that foundation been under more severe attack than now.

It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.