You never forget the people who were kind to you in childhood, do you, sir?
Old age makes caricatures of us all.
All fiction is largely autobiographical and much autobiography is, of course, fiction.
I don't see why escapist literature shouldn't also be a work of art.
If you are proposing to commit a sin it is as well to commit it with intelligence. Otherwise you are insulting God as well as defying Him, don't you think?
Man is diminished if he lives without knowledge of his past; without hope of a future he becomes a beast.