It was an inflexible maxim of Roman discipline that good soldier should dread his own officers far more than the enemy

War, in its fairest form, implies a perpetual violation of humanity and justice.

Edward Gibbon, in his classic work on the fall of the Roman Empire, describes the Roman era's declension as a place where "bizarreness masqueraded as creativity.

there is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an argument - and that is to avoid it .

To be human is to seek beauty, Shallan. Do not despair, do not end the hunt because thorns grow in your way.

As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.

I don't have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.

Class is the most difficult subject for American writers to deal with as it is the most difficult for the English to avoid.

I feel like a steaming cow-pat - or a car that's clocked up 400,000 miles in one journey.

I trained as a designer, so I'm always terribly keen about what I'm going to look like.

You do the best you can. But it's hard. When I find things egregiously misrepresentative of women, I'll make a point to say to my son, "Turn that off. I don't want to see women behave that way.

Marriage is a garden that I'm constantly growing in.