Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness.

I would much prefer their minds to be engaged in the deadly arts than clouded with dreams of marriage and fortune, as your own so clearly is!

If a movie has more characters than an audience can keep track of, the audience will get confused and lose interest in the story.

My men have suffered greatly (from boredom), much blood has been shed (by mosquitoes), and I have swung my ax mightily (chopping firewood). Surely we have earned our place in the annals of history—for never has there been so little war in a war.

Real power... comes not from hate, but from truth.

The bottom half of the page had descended into a doodle of a tiny man giving the middle finger to a giant, angry eagle with razor-sharp talons. Beneath it, the caption: To Mock a Killing Bird.

I think any period in history can be adapted into interesting fiction, as long as you approach the actual history with respect.