After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones.

Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission.

I should add that it is open to debate whether what we call the writing of history these days is truly scientific.

Ever since my youth it has disturbed me that of the literary works that survived their own epoch, so many dealt with historical rather than contemporary subjects.

There's only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there's no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime.

An action doesn't have to be wrong just because it is not logical. It doesn't have to be right just because it has its logic.

Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making the past bear fruit for the present and future.

What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity.

I have always made an effort to render every detail of my reality with the greatest accuracy; but I have never paid attention to whether my presentation of historical facts was an exact one.

From depicting the past, so goes the suspicion, it is a short step to glorifying the past.

It is only the strong who are strengthened by suffering; the weak are made weaker.

Mary thus learns that the Most High has ever borne a Son in his bosom, and that this Son has now chosen her bosom as dwelling-place.

The mass of your visions depends on the size of your dreams and distance they can cover within a given period of your life.

And this is good old Boston The home of the bean and the cod Where the Lowells talk to the Cabots And the Cabots talk only to God.

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.

I don't want to be your other half. I believe that one and one make two.

I will maintain the presence of a Mexican Army, and the Navy and police in the states of the Mexican Republic, where the problem of crime has increased.

All of our issues come from us not being aware enough or not seeing through our problems to the depths of the issues.

It wasn't exactly that Lula was fat. It was more that she was too short for her weight." - Stephanie Plum

It will kill me, it will kill me, it will kill me. And I don't care.

For when our hearts were far away, Your love went further still, yes Your love goes further still!