I owe everything to golf. Where else could a guy with an IQ like mine make this much money?
I am not someone who believes I am going to find a historical scoop.
To begin impatiently is the worst mistake a writer can make
If you smash a city when you're trying to capture it, you actually end up providing the perfect terrain for the defenders while blocking the access for your own armoured vehicles.
The great European dream was to diminish militant nationalism. We would all be happy Europeans together. But we are going to see the old monster of militant nationalism being awoken when people realise how little control their politicians have.
I believe passionately in preemptive pessimism, especially before a book comes out. I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales, and then, with any luck, I may be proved wrong.
I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does.
These are roots of all evil, hatred and greed, for money, for the construction and for the sale of weapons. This should make us all think, who is behind it all?
If it would not look too much like showing off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is.
I might be in favor of national healthcare if it required all Democrats to get their heads examined.
Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.