beware of your most implacable enemy-yourself.

I don't want children. Why should I let some strange little monster into my life to destroy what to me is a perfect set-up?

When I vacate this sack of old bones I won't care what you do with it. Bury or burn it but don't make much fuss.

It's a strange paradox that a man gifted with too many talents can fritter them all away without developing a single one to its full.

Despite the fact that I spend a lot of time in London, Switzerland and New York, Africa is the place I know and love best, and my heart will always lie here.

All my characters have got a big slice of me in them. A big piece of me, because it's my dialogue and this is the way I think and talk.

History is a river that never ends. Today is history, and I am here at the fountainhead.