I read daft history books. Sometimes the books I read are a bit crackers or strange.

If you read all your history books, there are no women in them.

The people who read the history books tend to have a natural zeal and are alarmingly well-read.

To be in the history books of anything is fantastic,

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.

Old books exert a strange fascination for me -- their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how they lived, what they felt.