Anecdotes of Destiny (1953)
“They want to shake up the world, not make it wiser.”
“I shudder as I tell the tale.”
Horresco referens.
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book II, Line 204 (tr. Fairclough)
“Masters, I have to tell a tale of woe,
A tale of folly and of wasted life”
Introductory verse.
The Earthly Paradise (1868-70)
Context: Masters, I have to tell a tale of woe,
A tale of folly and of wasted life,
Hope against hope, the bitter dregs of strife,
Ending, where all things end, in death at last.
“The tales we tell ourselves about ourselves makes us who we are.”
Source: Second Helpings
“Now that I know that I am no wiser than anyone else, does this wisdom make me wiser?”
Source: Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person
“I quail,
E'en now, at telling of the tale.”
Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book II, p. 48
On his persuasive rejection of the term "Third World", in his Introduction to State of the Ark (1986) by Lee McGeorge Durrell.
Reply when asked if he thought he was a lot like the character he plays in Big Fish in an interview with Paul Fischer at Dark Horizons (2 December 2003).
Foreword: Two Attempts to Cheat Death (pp. 5-6)
The Immortalization Commission: The Strange Quest to Cheat Death (2011)
