My first book, 'The Age of Wire and String,' came out in 1995, and it was hardly reviewed at all.
A woman should be an illusion
It was the same with the whole Russian machine. Fear was the impulse. For them it was always safer to advance than retreat. Advance against the enemy and the bullet might miss you. Retreat, evade, betray and the bullet would never miss.
I take a ridiculous pleasure in what I eat and drink. It comes partly from being a bachelor, but mostly from a habit of taking a lot of trouble over details. It's very persnickety and old-maidish really, but then when I'm working I generally have to eat my meals alone and it makes them more interesting when one takes trouble.
She explained to me later that she must have been possessed by a subconscious desire to be raped. Well she found me in the mountains and she was raped - by me.
Our prisons are full of people who think they're Napoleon. . or God.
Everything I write has a precedent in truth.
Strange but true: those who have loved God most have loved men least.
I don't know that I'm 'hangdog'. That suggests someone skulking around, unengaged. I'm not. I'm 'engaged', believe me. I have just got a slightly sad face.
[Every age], however destitute of science or virtue, sufficiently abounds with acts of blood and military renown.
The only man I envy is the man who has not yet been to Africa- for he has so much to look forward to.