I want to learn how to pick locks, swordfight, throw pottery - it's all research. It's like the curious person's version of James Bond's license to kill. I've got a license to learn.

It's hard to be wrongfully accused, but it's worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or traveled more than twenty miles from the place they were born.

There is a sort of camaraderie that rarely exists except between men who have fought the same enemies and know the same women.

I won the only duel I ever lost.

There are few things as nauseating as pure obedience.

He had a bright, reckless tenor that was always wandering off, looking for notes in the wrong places.

It's not prowess if you watch 5 hours of TV a day. It's just how you choose to spend your time.