“The challenge for a nonfiction writer is to achieve a poetic precision...” — Simon Schama Quote

“The challenge for a nonfiction writer is to achieve a poetic precision using the documents of truth but somehow to make people and places spring to life as if the reader was in their presence.”

“The Bible, for all its riches, is not a document of social history.”

“The Jewish story is the story of wandering. It is the story of extraordinary heterogeneous complication.”

“It's really nice to see when someone young achieves something great.”

“What enables us to achieve our greatness contains the seeds of our destruction.”

“We all agree on the core values of a free and open Internet. We simply may disagree on the appropriate regulatory framework for securing those values. And I would much rather have an open and honest debate about the appropriate regulatory framework as opposed to throwing misinformation out there to achieve political ends.”