It seems to me after a fellow has been mutinied against three or four times, there is something to it besides bad luck.

Temeraire said, 'It is very nice how many books there are, indeed. And on so many subjects!

As a novelist you have just unlimited budget, total creative control. You really get to have your cake - all the cake - and then you can have a second cake if you wanted to.

Temeraire-- Never fear; I am going; the Son of Heaven will not tolerate delays, and Barham gives me leave. Allegiance will carry us! Pray eat something --L.

I should rather have you than a heap of gold, even if it were very comfortable to sleep on.

Enough of that, you damned conspirators, you will have us hanged a great deal sooner than we will.

Something about that whole process of building the structure of that game turned into a real kind of lightbulb moment for me as a writer.

What could make the Napoleonic Wars more exciting? Dragons.

I am very tired of this Government, which I have never seen, and which is always insisting that I must do disagreeable things, and does no good to anybody.

And we must still try or we would be leaving our friends to fight without us. I think this is what you have meant by duty, all along; I do understand, at least this much of it.

I'm an engineer and a writer. And I find that those two things are not uncomplementary.

Right. I can tell from the bat wings and the leeches that you three are just all happy-smiles and rainbows.

I don't say things to be offensive I say things because they're funny to me. It amuses me.

Sometimes you gotta mess up a little bit to wake up

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

Under Bill Clinton we had a roaring economy that looked really good.

May we all co-operate and join this war on pirates.

Knowing ignorance is strength; ignoring knowledge is sickness.

In the days of the frost seek an minor sun.

Our tribe unraveled like a coarse rope, frayed at either end as the old and new among us were taken.

Happy the man to whom heaven has given a morsel of bread without laying him under the obligation of thanking any other for it than heaven itself.