At age 10 or 12 he's going to boarding school in the Isle of Wight. The Isle of Wight is, of course, down at the bottom of England just off South Hampton.

We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories...And those that carry us forward, are dreams.

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.

I was the youngest. The yule lamb. The one who always got away without doing the washing up. My sister was four years older, and my brother six years.

What takes us back to the past are the memories. What brings us forward is our dreams.

It's just money; it's made up. Pieces of paper with pictures on it so we don't have to kill each other just to get something to eat.

When it seems that someone has shattered your dreams....pick up even the smallest of pieces and use them to build bigger and better dreams.

So the better my partner or my opposition, however you like to think about it, the better my game.

I think I would not be described as a character actor in that I don't take on characteristics which are very alien to me.

Most people are robust. If a man puts his hand on a woman’s bottom, any woman worth her salt can deal with it. It is communication. Can’t we be friendly?

You think, you don't just speak. The lines come off the thoughts.

Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books, than he already knows.

[We're] going to change the world. One day they'll write about us. You'll see.

It is only when the proper value system is well embraced by the populace that a country begins to produce God fearing leaders that are free from the mentality of eating from the national cake.

Fights problems with bigger problems.

No other discipline has its portals so wide open to the general public as history.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

The nuclear age has refuted the idea of progress and Marxism has been refuted by Stalinism. Therefore people have returned to the historic religion.

Nothing worse than Kurds in your milk. General, make sure i never see another Kurd again.

I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them.

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.