“My heart broke open and history fell in.”

“Peace broke out.”

“Methwold's hair, parted in the middle has a lot to do with my beginnings. It was one of those hairlines along which history and sexuality moved.”

“I learned: the first lesson of my life: nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time.”

“History could claw upward as well as down. The powerful could be deafened by the cries of the poor.”

“A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape.”

“The inevitable triumph of illusion over reality that was the single most obvious truth about the history of the human race.”