I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story.

Laughter is by definition healthy.

When young I did my best to undo that bit of the British Empire I found myself in: that is, old Southern Rhodesia.

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones moving easily under the flesh.

there are two kinds of humanity, those who dream and those who don't, and both tend to despise, or to tolerate, the other.

All I do is give interviews and spend time being photographed.

The first casualty in any war is the truth. In World War II, I was part of a group of people who used to meet once a week with the sole purpose of analyzing the news and trying to work out what we weren't being told. We thought that we were clever, but we had absolutely no idea what was really going on. It was only years later that we learned the true story.