We Only Have The Past That We

Although Many Of His Other Novels Are Brilliant There Is A Power In 'oliver Twist' That I Believe Dickens Never Managed To Retrieve. It Is As If He Was Sent To This Earth With The Sole Purpose Of Writing This Book.

Africa Was The Most Exotic Place I Could Conceive Of - The End Of The World - And I Knew I Would Go There One Day.

To Grow Up Is To Wonder About Things; To Be Grown Up Is To Slowly Forget The Things You Wondered About As A Child.

Police Work Wouldn't Be Possible Without Coffee.

When I Was A Very Young Author, I Knew I Needed To Build Myself A Tower Outside Of Europe. Like When You're A Hunter, And Build Towers To Watch The Animals Move. I Knew I Would Never Understand The World Without That Perspective. I Came To Africa For That Rational Reason, Although I Love Mozambique Now.