What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism.

Since God is silent, man is his own master; he must live in a disenchanted world, submit everything to criticism, and make his own way.

Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word.

To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just a terrible creature but somebody with whom you disagree.

My definition of modernism took a while to develop.

My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right.

People seem to forget that one reason they are now thinking differently is Freud's legacy itself.

The ideas of theologians are refuted by their adversaries, the ideas of scientists are refuted by their followers.

And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by understanding them psychoanalytically.

With the passage of years, not all of Dicken's readers remained infatuated with his pathos. One generation's sublimity became another generation's kitsch.

I have always had a strong interest in history and finding out about the past can be remarkably helpful with working out the future, too.

Travelling shouldn't be just a tour, it should be a tale.

Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.

The play is so close to the reality. . . . It comes out of the heart.

Destroying a tropical rainforest for profit is like burning all the paintings of the Louvre to cook dinner.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

Doubt everything or believe everything: these are two equally convenient strategies. With either we dispense with the need for reflection.

Everything is everything What is meant to be, will be After winter, must come spring Change, it comes eventually

Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.

What happens to each of my female heroes, certainly, is they find something bigger than themselves that they are honored to serve. It's not giving up your family.

So, we pray well when we remain in this way in the presence of God, with no exertion of the understanding or will. Therefore, you will do well to listen to God in the urge you feel to return to us.