A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns.

Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank -- but that's not the same thing.

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

A historian may be an artist too, and a novelist is a historian, the preserver, the keeper, the expounder, of human experience.

The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.