Storytelling Has A Narcotic Power.

What A Heap Of Ash Most Political Careers Amount To, When One Really Stops To Consider Them!

A Book Unwritten Is A Delightful Universe Of Infinite Possibilities. Set Down One Word, However, And It Immediately Becomes Earthbound. Set Down One Sentence And It’s Halfway To Being Just Like Every Other Bloody Book That’s Ever Been Written.

History Is What We Bring To It, Not Just The Events Themselves, But How We Interpret Those Events.

Politics? Boring? Politics Is History On The Wing! What Other Sphere Of Human Activity Calls Forth All That Is Most Noble In Men's Souls, And All That Is Most Base? Or Has Such Excitement? Or More Vividly Exposes Our Strengths And Weaknesses? Boring? You Might As Well Say That Life Itself Is Boring!

Another Of Cicero's Maxims Was That If You Must Do Something Unpopular, You Might As Well Do It Wholeheartedly, For In Politics There Is No Credit To Be Won By Timidity.