Some of my characters are a mixture of various aspects of people I have met. others are pure invention.

The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.

Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.

There is room in history for all of us.

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

I see no point in being despondent. We might as well enjoy ourselves during our brief tenure of this life.

How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?...only the completely happy think that they are in the correct place.

Talking about pumpkins doesn't make them grow.

We think the world is ours forever, but we are little more than squatters.

There are old mycologists and there are bold mycologists, but there are no old, bold mycologists.

A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?

We move through time like a man in a rowboat, looking back even as we move forward.

Peace is not the absence of war but the absence of fear.

We need to move from comparative advantage to perpetual advantage...

But this is africa, so hardly anything is normal.

Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience.

we should contract our ideas of education, and expect no more from it than it is able to perform.

For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end.

We are ourselves our happiness.

I'm at the stage of my career when it's not only about winning and developing players, it's about having fun. That's a void in your life right now, but it's something you're going to have here.

Place a padlock on your throat and hide the key.