I think that when one is dead one should be a little bit bolder, so that the rest of us may have some record of how things actually were.

Between history and the novel stands biography, their unwanted offspring, which has brought a great embarrassment to them both.

Inthehistorian'sview biography isa kindoffrogspawn it takes ten thousand biographies to make one small history.

I think that when one is dead one should be a little bit bolder, so that the rest of us may have some record of how things actually were.