And so do people pass out of one's life and all you can remember of them is their humanity, a poor fitful thing of no dominion, like your own.
E. L. DoctorowTime seems to me a drift, a shifting of sand. And my mind is shifting with it. I am wearing away.
E. L. DoctorowThe Shadow had no imagination. He neither looked at naked women nor thought of ridding the world of dictators like Hitler or Mussolini.
E. L. DoctorowHistory is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
E. L. Doctorow