To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness.

History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.

The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.

Iconic Paris tells us: here are our three-star attractions, go thou and marvel. And so we gaze obediently at what we are told to gaze at, without exactly asking why.

Most people, in my opinion, steal much of what they are. If they didn't what poor items they would be.

I dreamt that I woke up. It's the oldest dream of all, and I've just had it

History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us.