"The man who writes of himself and his time is the only human being who writes about all people and about all time. The other type of man, the one who believes that he and his time are so different from all other men and periods that would be immodest and irrelevant to allude to them or assume that it could interest anyone except himself and his contemporaries is the most conceited of all the selfish and, consequently, the least readable and most insignificant of all authors. let others cultivate what they call literature: for me: journalism! "