Would you believe it's harder to find a virgin than a unicorn in New York?

Temeraire said, 'It is very nice how many books there are, indeed. And on so many subjects!

As a novelist you have just unlimited budget, total creative control. You really get to have your cake - all the cake - and then you can have a second cake if you wanted to.

Temeraire-- Never fear; I am going; the Son of Heaven will not tolerate delays, and Barham gives me leave. Allegiance will carry us! Pray eat something --L.

I should rather have you than a heap of gold, even if it were very comfortable to sleep on.

Enough of that, you damned conspirators, you will have us hanged a great deal sooner than we will.

Something about that whole process of building the structure of that game turned into a real kind of lightbulb moment for me as a writer.

What could make the Napoleonic Wars more exciting? Dragons.

I am very tired of this Government, which I have never seen, and which is always insisting that I must do disagreeable things, and does no good to anybody.

And we must still try or we would be leaving our friends to fight without us. I think this is what you have meant by duty, all along; I do understand, at least this much of it.

I'm an engineer and a writer. And I find that those two things are not uncomplementary.

They safely cured the world of sadness, wiser the Pfizer for it?

It is defeat that turns bone to flint it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle it is defeat that makes men invincible.

Don't flaunt your success, but don't apologize for it either.

Distance might not solve anything, no matter how far you run.

Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time.

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

Marriage is a gift from God to us; the quality of our marriages is a gift from us to Him.

Of the influence of Mr. Mill's personal character on those who were his political associates, it is difficult to speak too warmly.

I'm very competitive by nature. And I like to be the underdog - It's the best way to win. To come from behind and win is a great feeling!