Those with the least always lose the most in war.

There was no such thing as luck. Luck was a word idiots used to explain the consequences of their own rashness, and selfishness, and stupidity. More often than not bad luck meant bad plans.

Sometimes, when someone lives in danger for too long, the only time they feel alive is when death's breathing on their shoulder.

Empathy? What’s that?” Glokta winced as he rubbed at his aching leg. “It’s a sad fact, but pain only makes you sorry for yourself.

Love at infancy is the strongest and puriest of all, it is mixed with infatuation and deep happiness.

I feel like Alice in Wonderland. Maybe Lewis G Carroll was on drugs too.

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

The impulse to connect the dots - and to share what you've connected - is the urge that makes you an artist

The world according to Bubba is simple - if it aggravates you, stop it. By whatever means necessary.

I used to have a house in London, but couldn't face 20 more years of St John's Wood in the rain.

Sometimes I think that people's characters get forged, at least in part, from their names.

Community colleges are certainly one of America's best-kept secrets.

If I'm gonna tell a real story, I'm gonna start with my name.

I actually find a lot of pleasure in writing lyrics.