The historical profession is nowhere famous for its tolerance, but there are not many countries where historians can expect to pay for their opinions with penal servitude or the firing squad.

[The Poles] will die for their country; but few will work for it.

Most Poles are by temperament 'agin'.

The Terror-Famine of 1932-33 was a dual-purpose by product of collectivization, designed to suppress Ukrainian nationalism and the most important concentration of prosperous peasants at one throw.

It is indeed the duty of historians to stress the contrast betweenthe standards of the past and the standards of the present. Somefulfil that duty on purpose, others by accident.

Reconstructing the past is rather like translating poetry. It can be done, but never exactly.

The Fascist utopia, like that of the Communists, was false, and generated immense suffering. But there were those who dreamed it sincerely.

As a young girl I was told the truth. I knew about death. I was afraid to lose but not afraid to die.

...there are no sweeter words in the English language (or any other) than husband and wife.

I’m not above using unsavory beings to kick the Gods’ asses, but the Phantoms are too unpredictable for my taste, ” I said.

Crushed again!

Children are a plant substitute and we haven't the wit to see it until too late

The world becomes an apparently infinite, yet possibly finite, card game. Image combinations, permutations, comprise the world game.

Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day.

Hollywood executives believe that money is both the be-all and end-all to the moviemaking process.

We had no alternative except that of preparing for direct action, whereby we would present our very bodies as a means of laying our case before the conscience of the local and national community.

After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.