Author Profession

Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence – a lot passes you by – simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.

Profession : Historian

There are moments when you feel free, moments when you have energy, moments when you have hope, but you can’t rely on any of these things to see you through. Circumstances do that.

Profession : Historian

Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Profession : Historian

There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.

Profession : Historian

Socialism means slavery.

Profession : Historian

There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a h , shake, or a fond eye.

Profession : Historian

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Profession : Historian

You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.

Profession : Historian

You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can’t answer slurs, but I’m here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn’t.

Profession : Historian

We are not only what we do; we are also what we have been.

Profession : Historian