The world is fleeting; all things pass away; Or is it we that pass and they that stay?

The only business of the historian is to relate things exactly as they are: this he can never do as long as he is afraid

There is no happiness without tears, no life without death. Beware! I am going to make you cry.

It is not lawful or proper for you to know everything.

Poverty persuades a man to do and suffer everything that he may escape from it.

The subject matter is autobiographical, it's all to do with hope and memory and sensuality and involvement, really.

I'll be reading books until the next challenger arrives. That will calm my nerves, so that I may deal with all situations without panicking.