People perish. Books are immortal.

Cicero smiled at us. 'The art of life is to deal with problems as they arise, rather than destory one's spirit by worrying about them too far in advance. Especially tonight.

History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.

Don't try to write too much in a single session. One thousand words a day is quite enough. Stop after about four or five hours.

My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.

Another of Cicero's maxims was that if you must do something unpopular, you might as well do it wholeheartedly, for in politics there is no credit to be won by timidity.

But clever people all make one mistake. They all think everyone else is stupid. And everyone isn't stupid. They just take a bit more time, that's all.