Alec Dea

“On the throne of the world, any delusion can become fact.”
― Gore Vidal, Julian

“Mind being the seat of the soul, and literature being the expression of the mind, literature, it follows, is the soul of an age, the surviving and immortal part of it.”
― Rafael Sabatini, The Life of Cesare Borgia

“To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is."

[The Title Always Comes Last; NEH 2003 Jefferson Lecturer interview profile]”
― David McCullough

“History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are. ”
― David McCullough