War is a bazaar where lives are traded like any other commodity: chocolate or bullets or parachute silk.

Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.

It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.

I am only alive because I have not yet died.

This, she realizes, is the basis of all fear. That a light you are powerless to stop will turn on you and usher a bullet to its mark.

What the war did to dreamers.

What the war did to the dreamers.

Posters go up in the market, on tree trunks in the Place Chateaubriand. Voluntary surrender of firearms. Anyone who does not cooperate will be shot.

They can march for days without eating. They impregnate every schoolgirl they meet.

Stick-thin, alabaster-pale Etienne LeBlanc runs down the rue de Dinan with Madame Ruelle, the baker’s wife, on his heels: the least-robust rescue ever assembled.

You know the greatest lesson of history? It's that history is whatever the victors say it is...Whoever wins, that's who decides the history.

As long as you give my friend Jonah Lehrer a free pizza, I'll write a song about your restaurant.

Building a product is easy. But building the company that builds the product is hard.

The residents had eliminated both past and future, and for all their activity, they existed in a civilized and eventless world.

The long game was ended, the Snitch had been caught, it was time to leave the air.

Don't dip your beard in the foam, Father!" They cried to Thorin. "It is long enough without watering it!

When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.

I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that friend whom I love.

It is a real honour to have been modelling for Britain's biggest paper for half a decade. Page Three is a British institution and it has been brilliant to be part of it.

I greet you all in the name of peace, democracy and freedom for all.

Advertising. I'd definitely like to try that. In fact, it was a genuine second choice career-wise. I'd be good at selling stuff - I've got the gift of the gab.