People Perish. Books Are Immortal.

It Is Perfectly Legitimate To Write Novels Which Are Essentially Prose Poems, But In The End, I Think, A Novel Is Like A Car, And If You Buy A Car And Grow Flowers In It, You're Forgetting That The Car Is Designed To Take You Somewhere Else.

History Is What We Bring To It, Not Just The Events Themselves, But How We Interpret Those Events.

I Think That Whenever A Nation Feels Itself To Be At Is Zenith, It Starts To Feel A Creeping Sense Of Anxiety.

You Can't Make Sense Of The Present Unless A Part Of You Lives In The Past.

You Find Out What You Think By Talking To Yourself.