What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say 'Oh what this really is is so-and-so ' reducing it to a simple formula.
This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
Men cannot count they do not know that two and two make four if women do not...
Just as everybody has the vote including women I think children should...
There is no reason to repeat bad history.
There were various turning points, but the main one at the beginning was...
Look into the heavens and say, “It’s my turn to make history.
