Prisoners!" Finan shouted, and I suspected he was shouting at me because I had so blatantly ignored my own insistence that we take men captive.

When a man cannot fight he would curse. The gods like to feel needed.

It's better to make the wrong choice, " my father had continued, "than to make no choice at all.

All you need to know, boy, " Finan growled, "is that Lord Uhtred's side is the one that wins.

We should know who they are, " I said, "before we kill them. That's just being polite.

It's true. I've seen it when the crescent moon shone bright on a cold, dark night. The darker the night, the brighter God's smile.

Children from all over the world have the same religion, childhood!

The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second.

Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.

When the reviews are bad I tell my staff that they can join me as I cry all the way to the bank.

It's amazing how much credit you can take, if you don't care about accomplishing anything.

There is a need, especially right now in America, to be a bit provocative.

The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.

No, I'm not dying, and I sure... ain't dead.

I was 21, when I heard the story that inspired this [thriller Allied], and I wasn't even a screenwriter then.