The thing people don’t understand about an army is its great, unpunctuated wastes of inaction: you have to scavenge for food, you are camped out somewhere with a rising water level because your mad capitaine...

The fate of peoples is made like this, two men in small rooms. Forget the coronations, the conclaves of cardinals, the pomp and processions. This is how the world changes: a counter pushed across a...

If you help load a cart you get a ride in it, as often as not. It gives him to think, how bad people are at loading carts. Men trying to walk straight ahead through...

Slow down,’ he said, ‘so I can see how you do it,’ but she’d laughed and said, ‘I can’t slow down, if I stopped to think how I was doing it I couldn’t do it...

Ann Boleyn…a Renaissance Audrey Hepburn in a little black dress.

redoubtable” in front of it. I wondered if anyone ever called her redoubtable to her face. I redoubted it.

One of the great advantages ofhaving a library,your eminence,is that it is full of books.

If we still advise we shall never do.