"Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life."
"How can anyone govern a nation that has 246 different kinds of cheese?"
- Charles de Gaulle [1890-1970] wrote the now out of print The Edge of the Sword in 1931; a used English translation copy is available for $1853.
An earlier reference to de Gaulle on this blog here.