I often speak to returning service people about their experiences while serving. Whether in 1915 or 2005, the core issue of facing death on a daily basis remains.

I firmly believe as an author you have to go out in life and hear the stories of people. In pubs in the UK or a retirement home in the US it is the stories of others that bring a book to life.

During high school I worked in a retirement home. I spent many wonderful hours hearing from service men and their widows about WWI.

My great uncle fought in WWI. His stories fascinated me.

I was a corporate trouble-shooter for many years, and I know what it is like to walk very carefully into a hostile environment.

I was always a killer. It was my skill, and they’d taught me well. She taught me love.

I like people with depth, I like people with emotion, I like people with a strong mind, an interesting mind, a twisted mind, and also people that can make me smile.

That's how it's always been: I was always in the clear so long as I was truly guilty. But the minute my motives were honest someone would finger me.

Go somewhere or go nowhere, the choice is yours.

Looking back, I am thankful that I didn't go into the film industry.

The proportion of ingredients is important, but the final result is also a matter of how you put them together. Equilibrium is key.

Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all points repels.

It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.

I'm the wrong kind of person to be really big and famous.

Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it.

[Yahya Khan] thought of nothing but acquiring beautiful cars, building beautiful homes, making friends with bankers, and sending money abroad.