It is all very well planning what you will do in six months, what you will do in a year, but it’s no good at all if you don’t have a plan for tomorrow.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.

I spend a lot of my time talking to the dead, but since I get paid for it, no one thinks I'm mad.

It is almost a joke, but a joke that nobody tells.

Beneath every history, another history.

I am not a historian. I don't see what I do as being a rival to biography.

And if a diversion is needed, why not arrest a general? Arthur Dillon is a friend of eminent deputies, a contender for the post of Commander-in-Chief of the Northern Front; he has proved himself at Valmy and in a halfdozen actions since. In the National Assembly he was a liberal; now he is a republican. Isn't it then logical that he should be thrown into gaol, July 1, on suspicion of passing military secrets to the enemy?