Occupation: Writer Birth: April 30, 1955
Stay with the question. The more it troubles you, the more it has to teach you..
Shame, isn’t it? That we only like our heroes out in the street when they are looking their best and their uniforms are ‘spit and polished,’ and not ….
Because, we assume, these days, you just get in a car, you turn the key, and woosh, you're up the road. Or even now, dare I say, you don't turn a key….
only when we have a respect for time will we have learned something of the art of living..
If you look at the First World War, the Kaiser was actually, actively buying a lot of the armaments from Britain! in the years, in the run-up to the ….
I'll tell you this. Leaving that which you love breaks your heart open. But you will find a jewel inside, and this precious jewel is the opening of y….
As Churchill said about the Great War, and he said this in about 1924, that it was the first war in which man realized that he could obliterate himse….
It was time to move on, to dance with life again..
One always has riches when one has a book to read..
Never judge a journey by the distance..
Memories are links in a golden chain that bind us until we meet again..
It is indeed a wondrous universal alchemy, is it not? When one's heartfelt intentions cause mountains to move..
Im a storyteller; that is what I do. And Im particularly interested in history; and in history of a certain era. But what is interesting for me is ho….
if the way ahead is not clear, time is often the best editor of one's intentions..
I think that one of the things that we all ask ourselves, whoever we are, is: who stands to make a lot of money out of this [wars]? And, certainly, i….
My first ever job after college was as a flight attendant. I wanted to travel and could not afford it, so I decided to get myself a job where I could….
But to some extent, the whole aspect of Fascism was a real hot potato. Because so many of the aristocracy were enamored of the tenets of not only fas….
David Corbett's The Art of Character offers a deep inquiry into the creation of character for the novice writer, with valuable nuggets of wisdom for ….
I often think it would be really interesting to take all of those who would wage war to the battlefield cemeteries, and say, explain yourself to the ….
Truth walks toward us on the paths of our questions. As soon as you think you have the answer, you have closed the path and may miss the vital new in….
What's interesting to me, is a moving someone through time; in a way, history is part of my landscape. And it fascinates me that history can be so ea….