“History is a bunk on which I am trying to awaken”
“History is not a nightmare from which I am trying to awaken, but rather, a glorious tale which I wish to be cast in.”
“History ... is a nightmare from which I am trying to wake.”
“History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”
“I am not a teacher, but an awakener.”
“Like everyone else I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of ancestral promptings and urgings; a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, all of which I am the sum total.”