“As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes.”

“Dan Chaucer, the first warbler, whose sweet breath
Preluded those melodious bursts that fill
The spacious times of great Elizabeth
With sounds that echo still.”

“I rhyme
To see myself, to set the darkness echoing.”

“God cannot alter the past, but historians can.”

“Party historians go to the past for party purposes; they seek to read into the past the controversies of the present.”

“I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.”

“Jack Reacher stayed alive, because he got cautious. He got cautious because he heard an echo from his past. He had a lot of past, and the echo was from the worst part of it.”

“Somehow, bad news, however ridden with static, however filled with echoes, always manages to be conveyed.”

“David Irving is not just a Fascist historian. He is also a great historian of Fascism.”

“And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past.”