Life is naught but battles big and small, and most of them unexpected.

Perhaps the so-called civilized world was a great noisy burden beneath all its wonders, and it was a relief to let go of it for a while.

Aye, well, it’s like a battle. Ya lay yer plans, then when they go wrong, ya make things up as ya go.

Education and assimilation were devastatingly effective at controlling a conquered people.

The dead do not harm us, only the alive.

Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.

Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most noble employment of man

Justice is what the judge ate for breakfast.

It has been demonstrated that no system, not even the most inhuman, can continue to exist without an ideology.

You can't be a part-time man of principle.

The Booker Prize is a big, popular prize for big, popular books, and that's the way it should be.

I made theater very important in the beginning of my career.

Because I work in television, I always knew that I loved working with writers. It's very collaborative. You're always in a room full of writers.

True charity consists in putting up with all one's neighbors fault's; never being surprised by his weakness, and being inspired by the least of his virtues.