You have to stop living in order to write.

I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.

In the end, in England, when you want to find out how people are feeling, you always go to the pubs.

My definition of what makes a journey wholly or partially horrible is boredom.

After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers.

People may correctly remember the events of twenty years ago (a remarkable feat), but who remembers his fears, his disgusts, his tone of voice? It is like trying to bring back the weather of that time.

Once you get a tyranny, you don't easily get rid of it. Much better to remember about eternal vigilance.