I'm such a history-nerd that, with time for research, I could probably enjoy writing in just about any time period.

Katherine Sedley was the only daughter and heiress to the libertine poet Sir Charles Sedley, and grew into a thoroughly scandalous lady in her own right.

Louise de Keroualle, being a Frenchwoman from the French court, was feared by most Englishmen for how she might influence their king, and that fear quickly turned to hatred.

If the one who is to get us the news is in chains, the news may get to us but with chains!

I love it when dogs yawn. Especially when it's in the middle of another dog's speech.

I'm proud of people who have the determination and the fearlessness to actually go and face their demons and get better.

When I go on vacation I just like to do nothing - just hang out at the beach, go eat the best restaurants, and do nothing.

The call of love sounds very hollow among these immobile rocks.

I am satisfied with, and stand firm as a rock on the belief that all that happens in God's world is for the best, but what is merely germ, what blossom and what fruit I do not know.

The fact that you've got zombies in this movie allows you to make slightly bolder choices tonally.

Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living. But the over-examined life makes you wish you were dead. Given the alternative, I'd rather be living.

There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.

You will never find a truly happy self-centered person. They simply don't exist.