Beauty... Is what you are after a lifetime of struggle in the face of hostility, surviving, and standing scarred and unafraid, triumphant before your enemies.

Some might claim that like the secret of flying is missing the ground, the secret to immortality is simply not dying.

Those who object to human rights protection laws typically do so because they want to be above those laws.

You don't look well, " he pronounced."Indigestion, " I replied."From what?""Reality.""Join the queue.

That he survived, and indeed returned to government, was one of man's occasional triumphs over medicine.

I wanted myself. I wouldn't let what was mine be destroyed.

Europe has a lot of strength. We need to pool that strength, and I am very much in favour of that - more of a deeper political union.

I can't envision an honest war novel that left war in a positive light.

Experiment is fundamentally only induced observation.

I'm photographing all the time. I'm such a visual person and I don't want to miss that moment.

France has a very important relationship with Germany. But that does not mean that we agree about everything or that two of our universities or companies are not going to compete.

If you’re not happy looking a knob in the face, there’s something wrong.

So much work went into this book [ "The Thorn & The Blossom"] - you can probably tell from looking at the art and overall design.