“I used my history degree about twice a year whether I needed to or not.”
“I thought about how I had now let a self-proclaimed lunatic into my house twice and considered the possibility that my life needed sorting out.”
“I needed to talk about my real personal history, in order to become free of it.”
“Most people take four years to get a degree. Not me. I’m twice as ambitious. It took me nearly eight years to graduate.”
“Half-way through the labour of an index to this book I recalled the practice of my ten years' study of history; and realized that I had never used the index of a book fit to read.”
“I killed the Google Alert I used to have on myself two years ago. I don’t need any more information about myself. I get more than enough of that just by being me.”