With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction.

Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts.

Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject to a thousand changes and chances.

The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind.

Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses.

Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall never give one myself, and I have observed that many of my colleagues who do give such courses refrain from exemplifying their methods by writing anything.

All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour, so even when you're using charcoal on a wall or designed the proscenium arch, that's technology.

Even a true artist does not always produce art.

Even as a little child, I've always had that comedian kind of attitude.

Even when I'm playing someone named 'Fat Amy.' I'm all about confidence and attitude.

My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.'

As long as you gave it your best shot, even if in the opinion of others 'you failed,' you didn't fail.