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

Sometimes it is best for men not to attempt to interfere with destiny. Our prayers can be answered in ways which we do not expect and do not welcome.

I think one of the most poignant things is unrequited love and loneliness.

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

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

Usually halfway through a book I have a serious depression, so I go on safari on my ranch in South Africa, or fishing off my island in the Seychelles. When I come back and re-read it, I think: 'What was all that about, Smith? It's fine, just get on with it.'

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.