He looked up at them, a scruffy Napoleon with his laces trailing, exiled to a rose-trellised Elba.

“The brain works fast when it thinks it’s about to be cut in half.”

“He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flame…”

“Many an ancient lord's last words had been, "You can't kill me because I've got…”

“It's amazing how good governments are, given their track records in almost ever…”