You don't turn out as many books as I did then by sitting around, being cozy with the family.

A cynic had defined aid as simply the system by which poor white people in rich countries gave money to rich black people in poor countries to put into Swiss bank accounts.

beware of your most implacable enemy-yourself.

It's probably true that everyone has a book in them, although it may not be a very good one.

I know it's politically incorrect but I enjoy things like the kick boxing and cock fighting.

I'm not a good father and they're not children any more; the eldest is in his fifties. My relationship with their mothers broke down and, because of what the law was, they went with their mothers and were imbued with their mothers' morality in life and they were not my people any more.

I grew up in Rhodesia on my father's ranch and every year he used to take us on safari in some remote area of the wilderness.