“History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.”

“...neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.”

“What the brats in life fail to grasp is that the trails of history are blazed not by those who cling to what is, but by those who dare to seek out what might be.”

“This is an orchestration for an event. For a dance in fact. The participants will be apprised of their roles at the proper time. For now it is enough that they have arrived. As the dance is the thing with which we are concerned and contains complete within itself its own arrangement and history and finale there is no necessity that the dancers contain these things within themselves as well. In any event the history of all is not the history of each nor indeed the sum of those histories and none here can finally comprehend the reason for his presence for he has no way of knowing even in what the event consists. In fact, were he to know he might well absent himself and you can see that that cannot be any part of the plan if plan there be.”

“Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.”

“But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.”