Alexander Smith

Everything is sweetened by risk.

How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.

There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.

'Alpha' is a very fast-moving book. It doesn't lend itself to laborious introspection and the navel-gazing that some stories can fall prey to.

Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?