For a long time, I worked in film and theater, but reading started when I was much younger. I was always a reader.

There were books everywhere in my house. Books were very present. I just loved books. I never understood reading as anything but a pleasurable activity from a very young age.

There are moments where we don't understand the world we live in - where we don't understand our own lives, our sadness or our joy.

Learning from books is so empowering - whether it be from history, a novel or a poem. When you come away from reading having learned something, you yourself are bigger.

I believe we should be championing the work of women. I believe we should be championing the work of people who have been marginalized. That's who I am. How can I not believe in that?

It’s amazing to consider just how many people smile at the thought of you.

Changes are products of intensive efforts.

Knowing to do the right thing, but playing stupid to oblige to it, is still lying.

Knowledge. How curious that a man who closes his hand upon air so often thinks that he has a ruby within his grasp.

That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.

Maybe roll in the sand with a rock and roll man.

A nonviolent warrior knows no leaving the battle. He rushes into the mouth of himsa, never even once harbouring an evil thought.

I don't like grouper fish. Well, they're okay. They hang around star fish. Because they're grouper fish.

When you go for a walk, take seeds with you, poppies, rainbow chard, rocket. Plant them among the weeds in patches of wasteland. See what happens.