I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was a good debut novel for me to have published. I was 26 or 27 when it was published. I already had a kid and would soon have a second.
“Few would venture to deny the advantages of temperance in increasing the efficiency of a nation at war.”
“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.”