History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.

Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.

Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key.

It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.

Why is it always the "intelligent" people who are socialists?

Have you ever thought, headmaster, that your standards might perhaps be a little out of date? Of course they're out of date. Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.

History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.