“The only business of the historian is to relate things exactly as they are: this he can never do as long as he is afraid”

“What is afraid?' asked Peter longingly. He thought it must be some splendid thing. 'I do wish you would teach me how to be afraid, Maimie,' he said.”

“I see someone who is afraid of giving up the only dream that will make them happy because he's too busy doing what everyone else wants him to do.”

“In any case, Cide Hamete Benengeli was a very careful historian, and very accurate in all things, as can be clearly seen in the details he relates to us, for although they are trivial and inconsequential, he does not attempt to pass over them in silence; his example could be followed by solemn historians who recount actions so briefly and succinctly that we can barely taste them, and leave behind in the inkwell, through carelessness, malice, or ignorance, the most substantive part of the work.”

“Man is afraid to attain what he longs for, just as subconsciously he longs for what he is afraid of.”

“It really is brilliant news that historians can just never get things right.”