Scoops of mint ice cream with chips of chocolate cows.

What makes a good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who wants to write honest history and the one who'd rather write a good story.

To have courage, one must first be afraid. The deeper the fear, the more difficult the climb toward courage.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him.

Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.

At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly.