She is very plain. What does Henry see in her?'" "He thinks she's stupid. He finds it restful.

Much historical fiction that centers on real people has always been deficient in information, lacking in craft and empty in affect.

You mustn't stand about. Come home with me to dinner.’ ‘No.’ More shakes his head. ‘I would rather be blown around on the river and go home hungry. If I could trust you only to put food in my mouth – but you will put words into it.

Memory isn't a theme; it's part of the human condition.

Sometimes peace looks like war, you cannot tell them apart.

[Margaret Thatcher] assumed somehow that this would get the woman voter and all those juvenile male voters who wanted a well-regulated household with a woman who knew what she should be doing.

I think it is going to take another fifty years for the report to be in. If I were to give a preliminary report, I would say that [Margaret Thatcher] wrecked this country.