“Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each othe…” — Rebecca West

There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die.

I write books to find out about things.

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.