As One Grows Older, One Realizes How

Fear Comes With Middle Age.

Guilt Is Often An Excuse For Not Thinking.

If I Had To Give Young Writers Advice, I Would Say Don't Listen To Writers Talking About Writing Or Themselves.

History Is Made By Masses Of People. One Man, Or Ten Men, Don't Start The Earthquakes And Don't Stop Them Either. Only Hero Worshipers And Ignorant Historians Think They Do.

Intellectuals Can Tell Themselves Anything, Sell Themselves Any Bill Of Goods, Which Is Why They Were So Often Patsies For The Ruling Classes In 19th-century France And England, Or 20th-century Russia And America.