Great ideas emerges from useless fragments of thoughts.
Retrospect: the sweetener of life.
(n.) The act, or the faculty, of looking back on things past.
So it comes about that the war [World War I] seems, to us, to have been fought less over territory than the way it would be remembered, that the war’s true subject is remembrance. Indeed the whole war...
As a historical novelist, there are few jobs more retrospective.
Silence speaks volumes, especially is you're quietly listening.
Mistakes are like bad loves, the more you learn from, the more you wish they'd never happened.