Justice is expensive. That is why there is so little of it, and it is reserved for those few with enough money and influence to afford it.

It seems to me that if you wish to apply laws to us, it were only reasonable to consult us on them, and from what you have read to me about Parliament, I do not think any dragons are invited to go there

It seems to me after a fellow has been mutinied against three or four times, there is something to it besides bad luck.

All of a sudden, I sort of started to feel that I was constrained by the characters as opposed to enjoying them. And that remains for me to this day the line that I know where it's like, OK, you're not writing fan fiction anymore.

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.

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

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