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.

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

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