I asked people who have already finished books for advice, which is akin to asking a mother with a four-year-old what childbirth is like.

Change the world by being yourself.

We need to remember what's important in life: friends, waffles, work. Or waffles, friends, work, it doesn't matter. But work is third.

Continue to share your heart with people even if it's been broken.

Symmetry is pleasing but not as sexy. Einstein is cool but Picasso knows what I'm talking about.

There's power in looking silly and not caring that you do.

I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading.

If your career is a bad boyfriend, it is healthy to remember you can always leave and go sleep with somebody else.

Sometimes painful things can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know.

Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.

You never know what's around the corner unless you peek. Hold someone's hand while you do it. You will feel less scared.

We all need salespeople who deliver value that wasn’t there before they arrived.

Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent

People get nervous accessorising, but there is nothing wrong with adding a belt or a pair of shoes in another colour.

I do take class because I still dance, and yes, I do slip into class with the Royal Ballet from time to time.

The choicest thing this world has for a man is affection.

In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.

The point is to make the pie grow faster and distribute the new growth more equitably.

I'm definitely guilty of thinking something is funny but thinking the audience won't. Then three years later I will finally try it and it'll kill them. I got to give them more credit.

Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me; and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me.

Having scored 298 and still hitting a six is something unimaginable and you need to be a genius for that.