Justice is expensive. That is why there is so little of it, and it is reserved for those few with enough money and influence to afford it.

Temeraire said, 'It is very nice how many books there are, indeed. And on so many subjects!

As a novelist you have just unlimited budget, total creative control. You really get to have your cake - all the cake - and then you can have a second cake if you wanted to.

Temeraire-- Never fear; I am going; the Son of Heaven will not tolerate delays, and Barham gives me leave. Allegiance will carry us! Pray eat something --L.

I should rather have you than a heap of gold, even if it were very comfortable to sleep on.

Enough of that, you damned conspirators, you will have us hanged a great deal sooner than we will.

Something about that whole process of building the structure of that game turned into a real kind of lightbulb moment for me as a writer.

What could make the Napoleonic Wars more exciting? Dragons.

I am very tired of this Government, which I have never seen, and which is always insisting that I must do disagreeable things, and does no good to anybody.

And we must still try or we would be leaving our friends to fight without us. I think this is what you have meant by duty, all along; I do understand, at least this much of it.

I'm an engineer and a writer. And I find that those two things are not uncomplementary.

Life comes from light: if we are under God’s shining light, life will be generated and the divine life will grow in us.

Money makes a monster of a man, that makes money his master.

Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.

I think the law changes, which is a nice luxury.

Before I settled on music, I wanted to be an archaeologist, an astronaut, all sorts of really diverse things.

A love story - your own, or anyone else's - is interior, hidden. It can never be accurately reported, only imagined. It is all dreams and invention. It's guesswork.

I don't feel [the] excitement you have when you first walk into a recording studio. It now feels like a tool.

All men are different. And should do everything possible to continue to be so.

Being strong can be also feminine. I don't think feminine equals being weak. Being strong is very sexy.

I hope the example of Saddam Hussein will give a lesson to leaders of other countries where human rights are not respected.