I specialize in what the French call la petite histoire. I am interested in the individual thumbprint.

Education must be taken out of the hands of rich illiterates, third rate politicians, and put where it belongs: in the care of scholars. At present the whole University system is rotten to the core, and an appalling waste of time, energy and money.

Love is purely a creation of the human imagination, it is merely perhaps the most important of all the examples of how the imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.

I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.

Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.

What we need is endless courage.

words can never get at the truth.