Speech on the Line of the Perdido, Senate (25 December 1810).
“I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.”
Speech to the House of Representatives (5 December 1818)
1810s
“This book has neither the virtue of irony nor deserves the sympathy reserved for the truly mad.”
From the third book, "The Book of the Idiot"
The Pillow Book
On Israel, America and AIPAC (2007)
Interview with Richard Stengel https://web.archive.org/web/20110622073025/http://www.cfr.org/southern-africa/hbo-history-makers-series-frederik-willem-de-klerk/p7114?breadcrumb=%2Fregion%2F151%2Fsouthern_africa (8 June 2004)
2000s, 2004
letter to his friend Don Martín Zapater, early Jan. 1779 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3915977 and https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bestand:Francisco_de_Goya_-_Portrait_of_Mart%C3%ADn_Zapater_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg; as quoted in Francisco Goya, Hugh Stokes, Herbert Jenkins Limited Publishers, London, 1914, p. 110
Early in January, 1779, Goya was presented to the Spanish King and the heir apparent, and kissed hands. They appreciated his pictures (cartoons), Goya made as designs for the royal tapestry factory, to cover the huge walls of the king's palace https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Palacio_Real_de_Madrid
1770s
Letter written the night before his duel with Aaron Burr (10 July 1804)
Reply to a fan who wrote "you have to at least respect Dime as a guitarist."
Postings on Pantera (2006)
Notes on Life and Letters (1921), Part II,, "Tradition"
"By lying to Allah, I suppose."
"The Tale of the Rose and the Nightingale (and What Came of It)", Arabesques (1988), ed. Susan Schwartz. Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Endangered Species (1989)
Fiction
