"Yeah but everyone was a saint years ago, that seemed to be thrown about back then. Who's a saint now, in this year, who's a saint? And yet this guy, lived in a hut in the woods, 'oh yeah that's Saint John or whatever.' He wasn't a saint, he did nothin"

"The earth, rotating at the rate of one thousand miles an hour, was stopped. The motion of this vast globe w…"

"We are all at times unconscious prophets."

"A great man's manias must be respected, because the time required to combat them is too precious to waste. …"

"At first when I saw 'The Sick Child' her pallid face and the vivid red hair against the pillow – I saw some…"

"Mussolini...hoped Herr Hitler would see his way to postpone action which the Chancellor had told Sir Horace…"

"I have owed you this letter for a very long time — but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were…"