The most beautiful women in the world were African.

The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself.

Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history.

The most beautiful women in the world were African.

As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.

To capture the human cost of fallen empire with all its horror and absurdity, Sheets offers the right combination: the political insight of a top reporter and the power of a novelist.

Then there was the whole concept of coal mining, which is a culture unto itself, the most dangerous occupation in the world, and which draws and develops a certain kind of man.