"From a young age, I was instinctively drawn to stories of escape, adventure and the high seas. It wasn’t just that I …"

"It seems to me that untold histories that come from a very pure place of suffering and survival contain truth. Everyt…"

"Traumas, or very powerful, primal experiences, especially when they’re experienced by large numbers of people, have a…"

"In a certain sense, many of us mutilate the mind and render it impotent, for there is in the nature of man an irresis…"

"Lamb had written to Coleridge about one of their old masters, who had been a severe disciplinarian, intimating that h…"

"Dined at Gooden’s, where I met among others , the Secretary of the . He surprised me by saying that he knew Goethe on…"

"Lamb was the first English writer of eminence whom Crabb Robinson tried to convince of the excellence of Goethe."

"Sunt Angli graves ut Germani, magnifici domi forisque magna assectantium famulorum agnimi secum trahunt, quibus in si…"

"Sunt potentes in praeliis, undiquaque debellant adversarios, nullumque penitus patiuntur iugum servitutis. Delectantu…"

"In a profound sense every man has two halves to his being: he is not one person so much as two persons trying to act …"