Michael Korda

"The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own."

"Cats don't think they're owned by anybody. Even behind doors and windows, like amiable Wally, they're free. Always. That may, in fact, be the most important thing about them."

"The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject."

"Peter Fleming was a famous English traveler, explorer and adventurer, whose non-fiction books were hugely successful. My father owned signed copies of all of them - he and Peter Fleming had become acquainted over some detail of set design at the Korda film studio in Shepperton - and I had read each of them with breathless adolescent excitement."