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So often, we don't realize that the very moments in which we live become our history, our story.

History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.

Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

While we read history we make history.

History is with us until we learn from the suffering of the past.

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.

It is not history, theology or mythology that interest me. It is the fact that history, theology or mythology could have alternative interpretations or explanations. I try to connect the dots between the past and the present.