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.

People don't really know themselves until they're 30. Like most people nowadays, I went to university, got a degree and wandered for a bit. I trained to be a chartered accountant, which I didn't much enjoy, and it was only slowly that the idea of becoming a creative writer gelled.

I want to be seen as a good storyteller. I'm a manipulator as well.

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

Litigation only makes lawyers fat.

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.

There's nothing so aphrodisiacal for a woman as money and success.