The American revolutionaries believed in the power of the word. But they had only word of mouth and the printing press. We have the Internet.

I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.

The notion of 'history from below' hit the history profession in England very hard around the time I came to Oxford in the early 1960s.

I would not minimize the digital divide, which separates the computerized world from the rest, nor would I underestimate the importance of traditional books.

Digital data are more fragile than printed material.

The fact that I spend a lot of time in the 18th century doesn't mean I'm not concerned with the 21st.

It's important to make clear to all the schools at Harvard the central role of the library.

My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard University Libraries.

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.

It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.

Producing is a thankless task akin to hotel management. Unfortunately there are not too many good hotel managers.

Rest in peace to Heath Ledger but I'm no joker

Liberals do not appear to address potential solutions with anything like the far right's aura of God-given self-confidence.

Find a teacher of Tantric Zen and study with them because it is transference of awareness, a sharing of the perception of the beauty of life.

Are you in want of amusement nowadays? Then play a little at the game of getting a living. There was never anything equal to it. Do it temperately, though, and don't sweat.

The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny.

I don't think that being in a full-time relationship is necessarily for everybody all of the time. It's not necessarily some state of grace.

I always wanted my mother to be Queen for a Day. I always used to watch that show that came on television.

We Poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.