the wages of empire is myopia

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots the other wings.

Mobile phones ... they're not for communicating, they're for broadcasting. Broadcasting The Show Of Me.

Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve.

A true revolution of values will see that the western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just.

Not only do I know how to milk a cow, but I know how to herd a bunch of cows, too, which is a life skill that I think may come in handy someday.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

Whatever fosters the growth of civilization works at the same time against war.

Only fools want to be great.

Everything about her spoke of alternatives and possibilities that if considered too deeply would wreak havoc with the neat plan I had laid out for my life.

I like to eat healthily anyway and I think I've become more disciplined now I've retired - because I'm such a creature of habit, I don't find it hard to do. I quite enjoy the challenge.