I would play ball with Catherine, and hide and seek: Not a very challenging game in an open meadow, but she was still at the age where she believed that if she shut her eyes and buried her head under a shawl then she could not be seen.

Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian.

Fortune's wheel takes you very high and then throws you very low, and there is nothing you can do but face the turn of it with courage.

Only fools wait when their enemies are coming, to see if they may prove to be friends.

For he loved her and he understood that a woman cannot always live as a man. He understood that she cannot always think as he thought, walk as he walked, breathe the air that he took in. She would always be a different being from him, listening to a different music, hearing a different sound, familiar with a different element.

... all that that I learn just teaches me that I know nothing.

I'm utterly indifferent to Kate Middleton's baby.