That my philosophy of life is, as far as possible, one of enjoyment. I'm not nihilistic.

Every small wrong, every minor act of cruelty, every act of petty bullying was symbolic of a greater wrong. And if we ignored these small things, then did it not blunt our outrage over the larger wrongs?

I have always taken the view that one should never hold against a man anything he says after twelve o'clock at night or after a glass or two of anything.

As a writer I've learned certain lessons. One of them is to be careful about how you put a view, and to bear in mind how easily and readily you'll be misinterpreted.

The Okavango Delta is an astonishing sight: the great Okavango River, rather than flow towards the sea, flows inland, into the sands of the Kalahari.

Small things may be important to us; to be a sometime anything is sometimes something.

Our minds can come up with the most entertaining possibilities, if we let them. But most of the time, we keep them under far too close a check.