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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?