23 Quotes by Steven Saylor

Now as I grow older, Meto, I grow less and less able to tolerate the stupidity of the people and the wickedness of their rulers. I have seen too much suffering created by ambitious men who care only for themselves.

I can’t say I had an ideal father, and I’m not a father myself.

There was no arguing with a man’s faith in the legends of his childhood.

What appalling tales we shall have to tell of the strange lands we visited; and of those lands, surely none was stranger or more barbaric than Rome!

Even the crudest, most derivative novel is an expression of the author’s hopes and fears and ideas about good and evil.