'We would make our heroes shallow,' he answered, the words very slow and almost sad. 'We would make them brittle. It is they who must remind us of the true meaning of strength.' (David Talbot)

'Of course I deserve it,' I said, stroking Mojo. 'That's the simplest thing about dealing with me, apparently. I always deserve the worst! The worst disloyalty…

Maybe that's what Hell is. You go mad. And all your demons come and get you just as fast as you can think them up.

Centuries ago, when I first stood on that little boulevard stage in Paris-when I saw the happy faces, when I heard applause- I felt as if my body and soul had …

Sueno con claustros de marmol donde en silencio divino los heroes, de pie, reposan; ?de noche, a la luz del alma, hablo con ellos: de noche! Estan en fila: pas…

These heroes are dead. They died for liberty-they died for us. They are at rest. They sleep in the land they made free, under the flag they rendered stainless,…

I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.