Yes, I know, it's not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the greater truth emerges.

The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature.

Where else? I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable only in the company of others who are lost and lonely.

When you are on the dancefloor, there is nothing to do but dance.

Libraries can take the place of God.

Man's principle trait is a readiness to believe anything. Otherwise, how could the Church have survived for almost two thousand years in the absense of universal gullibility?

After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the truth. Who of us is able to say now whether Hector or Achilles was right, Agamemnon or Priam, when they fought over the beauty of a woman who is now dust and ashes?