I Have Always Derived Indescribable Pleasure From

History Is A Novel That Has Been Lived, A Novel Is History That Could Have Been.

There Are Only Two Great Currents In The History Of Mankind: The Baseness Which Makes Conservatives And The Envy Which Makes Revolutionaries.

Debauchery Is Perhaps An Act Of Despair In The Face Of Infinity.

Barbarism Is Needed Every Four Or Five Hundred Years To Bring The World Back To Life. Otherwise It Would Die Of Civilization.

One Of The Proud Joys Of The Man Of Letters - If That Man Of Letters Is An Artist - Is To Feel Within Himself The Power To Immortalize At Will Anything He Chooses To Immortalize. Insignificant Though He May Be, He Is Conscious Of Possessing A Creative Divinity. God Creates Lives; The Man Of Imagination Creates Fictional Lives Which May Make A Profound And As It Were More Living Impression On The World's Memory.