They do say that socialism is the ideal philosophy-just as long as you have capitalists to pay for it.

They do say that socialism is the ideal philosophy-just as long as you have capitalists to pay for it.

I shot my first lion at the age of 14 when a pride threatened my father's livestock while he was away on holiday.

Let it simply be said that we know more about the details of the hours immediately before and the actual death of Jesus, in and near Jerusalem, than we know about the death of any other one man in all the ancient world.

I read all of Rider Haggard's books. For me he had the romance of Africa with a little bit of mysticism. I'm delighted to be looked on as his heir and be categorised as an adventure novelist because that's exactly what I am.

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

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.