Pastoral Resources

Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.

For the first time in history all the major countries in the world are pushing together to reach this goal... building something in space that is really for all humankind.

I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news.

Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.

I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn't find my way into the fictional world... When I finally could return to writing the novel, it was in fits and starts.

Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.

If the September 11 terror attack is supposed to constitute a caesura in world history, it must be able to stand comparison to other events of world historical impact.

The Internet makes it possible for people like me to live the way I do now. Without it, I'd have to be in New York or some other city. I think the Internet is the greatest invention in history after antibiotics.

I'd like to write a history, maybe of the Reformation.

The United Nations has a critical role to play in promoting stability, security, democracy, human rights, and economic development. The UN is as relevant today as at any time in its history, but it needs reform.

You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.

When I began writing that I was able and did travel and met some fascinating people and also uncovered some history, which has not been discovered before.

Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history.

I am a fan of history.

It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema.

Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry.

Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.

Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.

Food might be more immediately important than history but if you don't understand what's been done to you - by your own people and the so-called 'they' - you can never get around it.

Everybody needs history but the people who need it most are poor folks - people without resources or options.