Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.

The principal thing in this world is to keep one's soul aloft.

I do not like to "interest" the public with myself.

All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.

There is no truth. There is only perception.

Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.

And the more he was irritated by her basic personality, the more he was drawn to her by a harsh, bestial sensuality, illusions of a moment, which ended in hate.