I cannot write long books; I leave that for those who have nothing to say. - Celia Green

The most exciting thing possible is actually true.

Now if you do have a perception that any conceivable consideration may be utterly invalidated by some other consideration which you do not know, and if you are reminded of this perception constantly by the fact that things exist, certain modifications take place in the way you feel about things. These modifications have not taken place in the psychology of most people.

The only important thing to realise about history is that it all took place in the last five minutes.