"Suetonius: The Life of Julius Caesar."

"Fortunate those who, born before science, were privileged to die of their first disease!"

"I didn’t start writing to tell happy, little stories. I started writing to make some impact on the world in…"

"It is as useless for a person to want first of all to decide the externals and after that the fundamentals …"

"She felt like her soul was a handful of dice that were still rolling, and what came up would decide the sha…"

"The modernist object does not possess inner life; only internal conflicts."

"Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life."