Visually Agincourt is a pre-Raphaelite, perhaps better a Medici Gallery print battle - a composition of strong verticals and horizontals and a conflict of rich dark reds and Lincoln greens against fishscale greys and arctic blues.

I can't visualize the situation in which we nuke ourselves into extinction.

Well, if they are trying to kill you, on the whole they're the people you have to kill, aren't they?

Some people are more terrorist than others

The historian ought to be an educated person, writing for other educated people about something which they don't know about, but wish to know about in a way that they can understand.

I think Americans like the practical; they like the human. And I like both those things myself, and I try and put them into my books.

The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people.