I like to start slowly, and then ease up as the day progresses.

Walk free from the long shadows cast by small people.

What I am interested in, what I write and care about, exists in the slow lane, somewhere between hand-ploughed fields and a pint of real ale.

Eyesight can be so blinding. We need to look beyond the face of things.

There’s no such thing as writer’s block, so long as you’ve had plenty of time to think about what you want to write.

The process of creation begins way before one starts writing.

I needed some space to lay myself out, so that I could decide which pieces I wanted to pick up.

Imagination is the real magic that exists in this world. Look inwards, to see outwards. And capture it in writing.

A consultant: someone brought in to build a one-handled wheelbarrow.

Sentiments, as I have found, can be harvested from places where our memories are fondest.

If we have faith, then we can see the beauty around us. If we don’t then we are just blind followers, not knowing why we are on the path.

Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Bonobos are unique among great apes because they are not dominated by males.

The minimum viable product is that version of a new product which allows a team to collect the maximum amount of validated learning about customers with the least effort.

People see him as a hero. Not just in Zimbabwe or here in Zambia but across the whole of southern Africa. It's no good demonising Robert Mugabe.

Create a good idea and leave it in the darkness; you will then see that people will come with the candles in their hands to find it, because just like the bad, the good has also a special scent!

I wear a baseball cap all the time, which I would never normally wear, and I walk very fast.

Good drama, challenging drama - and comedy for that matter - has a place in the daytime schedule.

At the end of the program, I tried to talk to the kids a little bit about life skills.

I love to go to the movies with people, but a lot of the time it's me in a room with a bunch of other movie critics, which is fine.