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" The question is whether a confident Europe will be a rival for North America - or whether they will work together and become a more unified bloc. "

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" All political institutions will end sooner or later. The question is when and how. "

" Serenity is the balance between good and bad, life and death, horrors and pleasures. Life is, as it were, defined by death. If there wasn't death of things, then there wouldn't be any life to celebrate. "

" It is important to remember that John Paul II was not an American or a Frenchman. "

" Under Lenin, hardly less than under Stalin, historians harbored critical opinions at their peril. The writing, let alone the publication, of political diaries was virtually impossible. "

" The advance of standard English culture was less assisted by government policy than by the sheer weight, wealth, and number of England's well-established cultural institutions. "

" In the long run, Europe will certainly move toward unification. But it will be a process of push and pull, and there will be resistance. "

" Any historian worth their salt should be aware of wars, conflicts, catastrophes. They happen. This is part of the panorama. "

" Traditionally, historians thought in terms of invasions: the Celts took over the islands, then the Romans, then the Anglo-Saxons. It now seems much more likely that the resident population doesn't change as much as thought. The people stay put but are reculturalized by some new dominant culture. "

" Young people have to learn in a cocoon filled with false optimism. Unlike their parents and grandparents, they grow up with very little sense of the pitiless passage of time. "

" All states and nations, however great, bloom for a season and are replaced. "

" The idea that historians write the definitive version of something that will last for all time is less current than it used to be. "

" One of the few things that can be said for certain about Europe's prehistoric peoples is that they all came from somewhere else. "

" Capacity of human societies both to absorb and to discard cultures is much underestimated. "

" I first came across the Anders Army story by accident. When I first went to live in Oxford in the 1960s, I discovered that some of my close neighbours had been on the Anders trail. "

" In essence, the tragedy of the Warsaw Rising resulted from a systemic breakdown of the Grand Alliance. "

" States seem to have a natural life cycle, and anything can occur to change them into something else, and that something might be no bad thing. "

" I find myself sick to death, tired of arguing about details with people who don't know basic facts. "

" I can just remember the blitz of Manchester, or perhaps my father's tales about the blitz of Manchester. I can remember the blackout, the powdered eggs, and the gas masks. But I think no British person should pretend that being resident in England could count as being in the thick of the action. "

" For people familiar with Eastern Europe, Marci Shore's 'The Taste of Ashes' is, in spite of its subject matter, delicious. A professor at Yale with much experience in Eastern Europe, she writes with great sureness of touch, weaving personal recollections with intellectual commentary and ideas with emotions, including her own. "

" Poland was the racial laboratory of the Nazis. This is where they started to put their abhorrent theories into practice. "

" There is history in condoms, there is history in lampshades, there is history in everything. "

" Historical change is like an avalanche. The starting point is a snow-covered mountainside that looks solid. All changes take place under the surface and are rather invisible. "

" The Euro Sceptics are the English National Party in disguise, and they have poor old David Cameron over a barrel. "

" Nearly all interested parties think I write too shortly on the subjects that interest them most. "

" The shores of the Black Sea lend themselves to the literary genre that may be classified as 'cultural pilgrimage,' which is not just a higher form of travel writing but which has the further mission of reporting on present conditions and supplying neglected knowledge. "

" Winners of wars get a standing start in the post-war stakes of remembrance. "

" Fifty years would seem to be time enough to prepare a definitive history of the Second World War. In an age of instant data-gathering, one might think that the historians could have arrived at a consensus for interpreting the main events of the war. In reality, no such consensus exists. "

" It was in the 20th century that national sovereignty really ruled the roost, and the E.U. was formed to cure that. "

" Nothing stands still. Everything is moving in some direction or another. "

" The most noticeable thing about the Soviet collapse was that it followed a natural course. "