And Life is Colour and Warmth and Light and a striving evermore for these; and he is dead, who will not fight; and who dies fighting has increase.

I adore war. It is like a big picnic but without the objectivelessness of a picnic. I have never been more well or more happy.

The thundering line of battle stands, And in the air Death moans and sings: But Day shall clasp him with strong hands, And Night shall fold him in soft wings.

That's the problem getting rich. You use up your whole life doing it. Just to sit up the front of the aeroplane.

It's a whole other ball game and I am glad that I fit into that space where, whatever it is that you want to do and you are doing as long as you are happy with it, then you know What the Heck!

The world has been experiencing a whole pattern of auto-destruction, whether in environmental disasters like Chernobyl or health disasters like AIDS.

A free-loader is a confirmed guest. He is the man who is always willing to come to dinner.

I love going to work. I love being on-set everyday. It feeds me; it's exciting.

As for inspiration, I find stark fear of missing the deadline very inspiring.

Love is blind; couch not his eyes.

It was a great time to be born, because I got to have my own publishing company right from the beginning, so I made more money than somebody would have doing what I did ten or fifteen years before.

Winning is neither everything nor the only thing. It is one of many things.

Woman, I tell you, is a microcosm; and rightly to rule her, requires as great talents as to govern a state.