I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.

When you look at the startling ruins of Nuremberg, you are looking at a result of the war. When you look at the prisoners on view in the courthouse, you are looking at 22 of the causes.

I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks.

In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums.

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.

Never have nights been more beautiful than these nights of anxiety. In the sky have been shining in trinity the moon, Venus and Mars. Nature has been more splendid than man.

... people who don't want something are less likely to get it than people who do want something.

The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs, but our mothers were Nightingales.

She had storms all her life, but she died peacefully.

I'm fond of anything that comes from the sea, and that includes sailors.

By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer what other men have invented . . .

May those who follow their fate be granted happiness

I like who I am when I'm with her. And I hope that she feels the same way. If she doesn't, we shouldn't be together, no matter how I feel about it.

Waste is Criminal.

The telling of any character is what they do in a different situation.

He serves his party best who serves the country best.

It's amazing what a bit of soot and shaving can do for muscle definition, honestly.

I want to believe that in any relational moment a person understands that the other person in front of them is just another human being.

'Show up at the desk' is one of the first rules of writing, but for 'Wolf Hall' I was about 30 years late.

The little man is still a man.

Education is the best weapon through which we can fight poverty, ignorance and terrorism.