Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence.

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

The nastiness of women [in the 14th century] was generally perceived at the close of life when a man began to worry about hell, and his sexual desire in any case fading.

To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.

More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life.

Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.

The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.

What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art in their arrangement.

Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.

One must stop conducting research before one has finished. Otherwise, one will never stop and never finish.

Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.

You have made a heaven across the impassable sky, but the planet Earth where you live have made her worse than hell. Are you humans stupid?

That porch is a happy-looking place, and my father - burdened, stoop-shouldered, cadaverously thin - doesn't seem to belong on it.

The scars and stains of racism are still deeply embedded in the American society.

A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their value.

The A-listers and the A+ listers, are reporting the news, they're not making it.

Just film what's there, trust what came before, one hour before, and make it easy.

Boros is not with the team today because he's attending his daughter's funeral. Oh, wait, it's her wedding.

We are a nation equally afraid of gathering together and being alone.

I'm suspicious of full-replacement programs - that is, pronouncements that one way of doing something will entirely supplant another, and that in fact we have to hurry the replacement along.

Because if you were the problem, chances were you could also be the solution. The only way to find out was to take another shot.