Mythology Is Much Better Stuff Than History.

I'm Not A Historian But I Can Get Interested - Obsessively Interested - With Any Aspect Of The Past, Whether It's Palaeontology Or Archaeology Or The Very Recent Past.

Language Tethers Us To The World; Without It We Spin Like Atoms.

We All Need A Past - That's Where Our Sense Of Identity Comes From.

It Seems To Me That Anyone Whose Library Consists Of A Kindle Lying On A Table Is Some Sort Of Bloodless Nerd.

It Seems To Me That Everything That Happens To Us Is A Disconcerting Mix Of Choice And Contingency.