When a man ain't got no ideas of his own, he'd ought to be kind o' careful who he borrows 'em from.

Said Aristotle unto Plato, 'Have another sweet potato?' Said Plato unto Aristotle, 'Thank you, I prefer the bottle.'

When you can't have what you choose, you just choose what you have.

It was neither preaching nor praying that made a better man of me, but one or two people who believed in me better than I deserved, and I hated to disappoint them.

It may be that them whose pleasure brings you into this world owes you a living, but it don't mean the world is responsible.

I thought there should in truth be heavy damages for malpractice on human souls.

But no earthly foot can step between a man and his destiny.

With a gun against my belly I... I always smile.

An aristocrat in morals as in mind.

Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader...

What to do with the past? There was so much of it.

A fool's bolt is soon shot.

Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars But in ourselves that we are underlings.

When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.

By the miracle of teaching, I can give you some of my ability, without losing any of it myself.

I've been producing documentaries on global warming for 20 years and have seen the early warnings of extreme weather events come true.

Friends ask you how you are and wait for an answer.

The incompatibility of aquacity with the erratic originality of genius.

Winter is the reason for the spring; he who loves the spring must also love its reason!