I think money is essential to happiness and right now I wouldn't want to be anyone other than Wilbur Smith - I've had a fantastic life rewarded far more heavily than I deserve. Maybe I'd like to be J. K. Rowling but I'll settle for second best.

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest ' and so forth I switch off quite early.

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness second their imagination and third their industry.

In my second year in graduate school I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers only minor ones.

Whether Canada ends up as o-ne national government or two national governments or several national governments or some other kind of arrangement is quite frankly secondary in my opinion.

You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.

The second office in the government is honorable and easy the first is but a splendid misery.

I'm not in the leftist controlled Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because of my political views primarily my lifelong militant support of the NRA the Second Amendment and my belief that the only good bad guy is a dead bad guy.