I Feel Rather Like A

Surely Life Has Taught You That A Thing Can Be Both Beautiful And Vile.

Sometimes We See The Civil War In Movies And Imagine These Neatly Aligned Rows Of Men With Muskets, Walking In Line To Shoot Each Other. In Reality The Things That Fascinated Me Were How Absolutely Ruthless And Violent So Many Engagements Were, How Much Suffering And How Men Were Not Prepared.

If A Novelist Has Created Vivid Characters, Interesting Relationships, Settings The Reader Can Easily Imagine, And Intriguing Stories, A Screenwriter Has Loads To Work With. The Challenge Comes With Deciding What To Cut And What To Keep.

On The Contrary, There Is Something Pleasing About His Mouth When He Speaks. And There Is Something Of Dignity In The Way His Trousers Cling To Those Most English Parts Of Him.

My Men Have Suffered Greatly (from Boredom), Much Blood Has Been Shed (by Mosquitoes), And I Have Swung My Ax Mightily (chopping Firewood). Surely We Have Earned Our Place In The Annals Of History—for Never Has There Been So Little War In A War.