“I was always amused by the prayers of the saintly. God do this, God dont do that. I thought God probably laughed at them too, unless He was a little annoyed by their temerity.”

“Oh, the shame that I suffer now...the shame of a vanquished King. And those were the last words of Henry Plantagenet.”

“And there he lay in his bed, a broken man, worn out by a way of life which had been thrust upon him because of the antics of a wayward pig.”

“Oh, the shame that I suffer now . . . the shame of a vanquished King.” And those were the last words of Henry Plantagenet.”

“They keep track of time. Sometimes things happen and you feel that you need to mark them down.”

“Does religious conviction provide a powerful reason for killing? Undeniably it often does. It also often provides the sole compelling reason for refusing to kill, or for being merciful, or for seek...”

“the past only had whatever power you gave it; life was what you made it and if you wanted something different from what you had, it was up to you to make it happen.”