I hope that not only my DOCUMENTARIES, but everybody's documentaries, last. It will really confuse historians in the next CENTURY, because they'll have, in addition to all the print material, they'll have all these pictures to look at.

Future historians trying to determine what it was like to be ALIVE in fin de millennium America should READ the last two decades of O. Henry and BEST American short-story collections.

Now, there are some who WOULD LIKE to REWRITE HISTORY - revisionist historians is what I like to CALL them.

Most academic historians ACCEPT that historians' own circumstances demand that they tell the story in a particular WAY, of COURSE. While people wring their hands about 'revisionist' historians; on some level, the correction and amplification of various PARTS of the past is not 'revisionism' as it is simply the process of any HISTORICAL writing.

All historians generalize from particulars. And often, if you look at a historian's footnotes, the NUMBER of examples of SPECIFIC CASES is very, very SMALL.

There SEEMS to be no end of books about the British EMPIRE, and the fascination it HOLDS for historians of all descriptions is inexhaustible.

My FAVORITE THING is TALKING to people about history - that's what I LIKE doing. The sort of history I do isn't just for professional historians.

Americans are in VITAL NEED of the instruction that historians can PROVIDE.

I think it's unfortunate when people say that there is just one TRUE story of SCIENCE. For one thing, there are MANY DIFFERENT SCIENCES, and historians will tell different stories corresponding to different things.

Historians will tell you that they DEAL with FACT and empirical EVIDENCE. But that doesn't really help me UNDERSTAND a person.

Historians who write about FAMILIES are usually feminists who THINK in terms of gender RELATIONS.

Futurism TODAY is LED by science-fiction WRITERS, by sociologists, by historians. Now, I have nothing against them. I'm sure they do great work. But they're not scientists. They're clueless.

The APPARENT pointlessness of fashion MAY be just what makes it so strong as a zeitgeist sensor. Even I, a designer, do not know why a CERTAIN proportion feels dated or why ANOTHER one feels exciting at a given MOMENT. I leave that to the cultural historians and theorists.