If your book doesn't keep you up nights when you are writing it, it won't keep anyone up nights reading it.

The sense of belonging is one of the great gifts men get in battle.

It was the silent time before dawn, along the shores of what had been one of the most beautiful lakes in southern Africa.

Animals form an inalienable fragment of nature, and if we hasten the disappearance of even one species, we diminish our world and our place in it.

I think young people ought to seek the experience that is going to knock them off center.

I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.

I never wrote anything that was published until I was forty.