Each of us will have to make the choices that allow us to be the largest versions of ourselves.

The point is not to pay back kindness but to pass it on.

It's like my whole world is coming undone, but when I write, my pencil is a needle and thread, and I'm stitching the scraps back together.

A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.

I write to find out what I am thinking. I write to find out who I am. I write to understand things.

A book does not discriminate against any reader. All are welcome at the table of literature.

Don't plan it all. Let life surprise you a little.

Everyone needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life.

I admit that for me love goes deeper than the struggle, or maybe what I mean is, love is the deeper struggle.

Every writer can tell you that a book is only truly alive when it finds passionate readers who bring it alive in their imaginations.

I grew up in a dictatorship, where you couldn't talk about difficult situations - there was this culture of silence. We would run into a problem and have no one to talk to.

Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.

Trust what is not known to your Mind. Trust what is known to your Heart.

There are memories I am better off without. Things better lost forever.

Failure doesn't mean anything, it just means changing paths.

Britain possesses no climate, only weather.

The hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else.

When I was a school kid in Coventry, I used to put up anti-apartheid stickers.

Instead of being ashamed of what you've been through, be proud of what you have overcome!

Success is all about consistency around the fundamentals.

I didn't really like the aloneness of doing stand-up.