I had Japanese once. A business man I had run into in New York ... but that's not what he meant.

This land has brought forth numerous children, favouring both the bad and the good ones. It is not the land that is responsible for the people’s hardships, it is the people themselves. Pg.8

How could he maintain the apology in his eyes without getting carried away by her cherubic innocence?

New things are always better than old things.

There is no such thing as too ordinary to write about, whether that's life or a scene in a novel. What's interesting to people, whether it's memoir or fiction, is the truth.

Maybe somewhere down the line when I'm done playing, I'd want to style NBA players.

On some level any appearance on Television can be seen as a product endorsement.

There's no better tonic for other people's bad ideas, than to think for oneself.

I had a nice time over Christmas. I watched EastEnders - blimey, that makes my job look easy!

The earth is round, smoking is linked to lung cancer, gravity makes things fall, and humans are warming the planet. Scientists strongly agree on all of these.

Scouts have always been surprised by the way I'm able to move at my size. How fast and agile I am.