I read and I read; and I was like a medieval king, I had fallen in love with the picture long before I saw the reality.

The best wines take the longest to mature.

Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.

The world began in hazard and will end in it.

We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.

The ordinary man is the curse of civilization.

Medieval theologians used to dispute how the angels in the heaven spent their time, when not balancing on needle points and singing anthems to the Lord. I know. They slump glued to their clouds, glasses at the ready, as the Archangel Micheal (that well-known slasher) and stonewalling St Peter open against the Devils XI. It could not be Heaven, otherwise.