History - an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant

Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene.

Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and o'erlook the motive, and of learned folk to discount the deed and lay open the soul of the doer.

If you would learn a thing, straightway declare yourself a professor of it!

The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man.

If you are a novelist of a certain type of termperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist except he was a Realist.

Yet everyone begins in the same place; how is it that most go along without difficulty but a few lose their way?