Litigation only makes lawyers fat.

I love the sea as much as I love the veldt of Africa.

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

Write for yourself, not for a perceived audience. If you do, you'll mostly fall flat on your face, because it's impossible to judge what people want. And you have to read. That's how you learn what is good writing and what is bad. Then the main thing is application. It's hard work.

I don't want children. Why should I let some strange little monster into my life to destroy what to me is a perfect set-up?

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.

The really disturbing thing about Somalia is that in a country where there are few economic opportunities, pirates are perceived as glamorous and are held in awe by young boys who aspire to their lifestyle.