“Why does a state last a thousand years? Why not 999? Why not a thousan...” — Norman Davies Quote

“Why does a state last a thousand years? Why not 999? Why not a thousand and one? What are the events that finally bring the whole thing down? That is what I am asking.”

“Our mental maps are distorted by who are the 'winners' of history and who are the powers of today.”

“The E.U. is an organization that was created after the Second World War for calming down the nationalism of member states, and it did so very successfully.”

“Most of what we know about human life we know from asking people to remember the past, and as we know, hindsight is anything but 20/20. We forget vast amounts of what happens to us in life, and sometimes memory is downright creative.”

“Ever since I'm done with Zim everyone thinks that I'm going to go back to comics. I've been flooded with emails asking me if I'm working on the new Johnny over and over again.”

“I never used to get photographed and people asking for autographs. I don't mind the autographs, but the paparazzi I find weird. As an actor, you want to be able to regard the world instead of having it regard you.”