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.

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.

beware of your most implacable enemy-yourself.

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

You know that feeling when you finish a final exam and you think, 'I never want to do that again'? Well I have the same feeling when I finish a novel. Each time I say, 'I think I may retire now' and then after six months the ideas start to churn again. I could never stop.

I am a closet birdwatcher. I can identify Southern African species, but it irks me I can barely tell a jay from a blackbird in the U.K.

Quite frankly, I think political correctness is the worst form of censorship. You're not allowed to speak your mind unless you're black, or unless you're a terrorist, or unless you're an Arab or a minority people. Then you can say what you like. But if you are like a lot of us you are not supposed to say certain things.