Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is [as] unfair as only sport can be."

"I had always imagined that Cliché was a suburb of Paris, until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford."

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

"Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium."

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.