I suppose the thing that really interests me is what mankind did with the big, big, big discoveries that have created our modern age.

Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books

I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner somewhere and become a Don or something.

The people I know who swear the most tend to have the widest vocabularies.

Hell, I am young. I am free. My teeth are clean. The sun shines. To hell with everything else

I suppose that there is no point wasting time being lazy, though of course indolence in a divine way, actually has its advantages.

We always make the mistake, the fatal mistake in the case of military people, of imagining that each war will be a kind of version of the one that happened previously.