In order to understand what they need to understand, in order to write what they write, they have to be free. And yet, they aren't ever free. They are not free because they are not free of the constrictions their art puts on them.
I hope to have some more cracks at some wonderful roles before I go to the Great Beyond.
A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect.