“If you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, b...”

“Let's pray that the human race never escapes Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.”

“The human mind is generally farmore eager to praise and dispraise than to describe anddefine.”

“You invaded Narnia. You have no more right leading than Miraz does. Peter Pevensie: You, him, your father! Narnia's better off wit...”

“Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years.”

“Jill had, as you might say, quite fall in love with the Unicorn. She thought- and she wasn't far wrong- that he was the shiningest...”

“If I took the 40 years of my dad talking to me about war and battles and taking me to battlefields and distilled it down into one...”

“All of my high school male teachers were WWII and/or Korean War veterans. They taught my brothers and me the value of service to o...”

“My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesm...”

“Mum and Dad met campaigning on the Spanish civil war. Both were active peace campaigners. They died in 1986 and '87.”

“My dad was in the Second World War with General Patton. He won medals for bravery, but he came home quite damaged, so he was a han...”

“My dad goes through war novels like I go through boxes of Cinnamon Toast Crunch.”