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 read a lot of biographies and books with an African background.

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.

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.

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.

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

I write my books in my head, and not in a specific study with a view. The view is from my inner eyes.