the virtue of imagination has this in common with the virtue of courage. Without it, you are less good: with it, you are not necessarily better.

Hyphens, like cats, are capable of arousing tenderness or shudders.

I like to use as few commas as possible so that sentences will go down in one swallow without touching the sides.

[The English] find ill-health not only interesting but respectable and often experience death in the effort to avoid a fuss.

You do realize that you are addressing the emperor of the Crescent Empire.""And you are addressing a free woman of the desert. You are not my emperor. Therefore, I am your equal.

I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.

My genre-hopping has caused problems with marketing and sales departments over the years, because they need to know where to position a book with the booksellers.

From my image of digging around in the mud like a grunt, I preferred fighting the war from ships.

The Beatles did their best cover work on Little Richard's 'Long Tall Sally' and music influenced by Richard, such as Larry Williams's 'Dizzy Miss Lizzie.

I suppose all of us - we have the old Protestant work ethic of feeling guilty when you're not working, and getting a buzz from feeling like you're really busy. That's the reason to sort of carry on.

Like me or not, I am the only one who has won the world's three most important leagues. So, maybe instead of the 'Special One', people should start calling me the 'Only One'.

Do the right thing, and then do the next right thing, and that will lead you to the next right thing after that.

China is to stock fraud as Silicon Valley is to technology.

Because of your love I have broken with my past