Even for an area I know well, I prepare a shooting list of subjects I need.

For sure, all over Poland, kids had my picture of a lemur on their bedroom wall - but the chances are they may never get to see a real lemur in Madagascar. I thought this was great and it really meant a lot to me.

I think few wives would have encouraged this kind of drastic and reckless career shift!

I concentrate on the southern African subcontinent.

Currently I am working on another three books, doing a lot of magazine work, am shooting for fifteen stock agencies, plus my own photo library - all this keeps me quite busy!

Big game photography in Africa is mainly done from a vehicle, so then I feel I might as well take the lot.

I also like flyfishing - maybe I would have figured a way to make a living out of that?

I hope to goodness I would not still be working in the corporate world - the money is OK but it is no life at all.

For the first few years we lived in a tiny rented cottage at the bottom of a friend's garden. We often joked that there was plenty of film in the fridge, but not too much food!

So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting - and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera gear!

I carry a notebook full of sketches of pictures I want to take - they are really scruffy sketches, but at least I am going out there with a clear objective.

I would never dream, for example, of going to The States to photograph your wildlife.

My first serious project was photographing badgers - very, very difficult as they are shy and nocturnal.

All I really wanted to do was wildlife photography.

A large wildlife book, start to finish, could take one to two years, but then I would expect to get several good (nature) magazine features off the back of this, plus of course a lot of stock.

Even for an area I know well, I prepare a shooting list of subjects I need.

In The States I would have no edge, no advantage at all.

I also had a tremendous passion for art and read a lot.

The Kalahari is brilliant - and easy to visit.

Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.

We in the U.A.E. have no such word as 'impossible'; it does not exist in our lexicon. Such a word is used by the lazy and the weak, who fear challenges and progress.

The only way you can be happy is if you be completely yourself. You have to be you. Don't be what you think you should be.

Making the Hall of Fame, would it be something that's gratifying because of what I've sacrificed? Sure. Baseball has been a big part of our lives. We've sacrificed our bodies. It's the way we made our living.

Adrenaline is an incredible thing.

Discovery is for forward lookers. So, no one is born with great knowledge.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

I had a great time in high school. I really did. I went to a private Christian high school and I graduated in a class of 67 kids, so it was pretty small, and I knew and loved everybody.

One of the things that Dostoevsky talks about is that no character is too high to fall and no character is too low to be redeemed. 'Crime and Punishment' began with a person going out and consciously becoming a cold-blooded murderer, and it took 800 pages and an epilogue before the person finally asked for forgiveness.

Having a normal knee would make life a lot easier.

Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired.

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God.

To some extent, I'm mildly surprised by every new piece, by the precise path that my interest takes.

Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.

Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.

If you are too busy to pray, you are busier than God wants you to be.

As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses.

Dreams are necessary to life.

We believe the Senate language provides for federal subsidies for abortions. Plus there's a language in there where you have to pay one dollar per month, every enrollee, to pay for a fund for reproductive rights which include abortion. And that's totally against federal law. So we are saying take that out.

There's always room to improve in a restaurant. A restaurant is better or worse every day than it was the day before. It's impossible not to be, because it's human.

Born on a mountain, raised in a cave. Arresting fugitives is all I crave.

There are so many beautiful girls who aren't photogenic. In real life, half the models you see look really hideous.

Writing for me is not a premeditated act. It just happens - characters keep coming out of nowhere and doing things I never expected them to do. The most persistent and most productive of these has been Paul Christopher, whom I didn't expect to see again after he appeared in 'The Miernik Dossier.'

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

I'm not a fan of that sort of punky, heavy, tinny stuff. I like a nice melody.