And luckily, therefore the good old days return. The traditional art of driving counts again, and it is all about good tactics, skills and reflexes instead of simple power.

My father was a motorsports journalist and a motorbike fan. He gave me my motocross bike.

The fact that I am still alive after 100,000 laps is my championship.

The margin between success and drama is fractional.

In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen.

In the end I didn't get a top car any more. I had no toughness left. That was the reality.

I am infinitely grateful to the life which privileged me.

I believe to have been one of the rare drivers to have returned to Ferrari.

I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.

The beauty of a youthful strength is a blissful life!

Susie and Pippa clinked their glasses together. I followed suit, but my heart wasn't in it anymore. It had already left the building.

We are used to thinking of Amazon myths in terms of violence against uppity women, but the ancient evidence also reveals a vision of gender equality.

Love and marriage are wonderful arenas in which to place a character. We are most likely to risk our morals and beliefs while in love. Betrayal gives tremendous insights into a character as well.

As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.

You have to write scenes and design scenes that are scary and horrific, but that are also watchable. I didn't want people to just feel like they got punched in the stomach.

Those secrets are things that most people don't learn, because they are not enthusiastic enough, or bright enough, or patient enough, or funny enough; or still enough.

Treasurys, as low as yields are, are higher than they are in most other developed countries.

The problem with being consistent is that there are lots of ways to be consistent, and they're all inconsistent with each other.

I never imagined when I began writing in the early 1960s I'd become professional and my life would be transformed.