It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars who in the known alone would shrivel up with boredom.
Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in...
But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave...
The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known using that as scaffolding and then letting imagination build the structure that fills in those things we can never find out for sure.
